Google Voice for iPhone Gets Rejected by Apple
In this morning’s drama, Google Voice apps just got rejected by Apple’s iPhone Store. The developer Sean Kovacs reports that the Google Voice mobile, along with Google’s official iPhone app, was turned down because it “duplicates features that already come with the iPhone.” People are currently speculating that AT&T is behind the rejection because it will mean less revenue for the carrier. The App Store is already full of alternative SMS apps and applications like Skype, which already has a phone dialer, making the duplication excuse a very flimsy one.
Anyway, it’s not like Google will be seriously scathed by this. They already own a competing platform, Andriod, not to mention that they’re pretty much a monopoly these days. According to Gigaom, this was Google’s official statement on Apple’s rejection of Google Voice.
We work hard to bring Google applications to a number of mobile platforms, including the iPhone. Apple did not approve the Google Voice application we submitted six weeks ago to the Apple App Store. We will continue to work to bring our services to iPhone users, for example by taking advantage of advances in mobile browsers.
Though the absence of Google apps from the iPhone will make the device less attractive to some Google Voice users, I hardly doubt it will make a significant amount of people drop this device for a different, Google-supporting one.
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