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GV Mobile and Voice Central pulled from App Store
GV Mobile and Voice Central pulled from App Store
Earlier today, iPhone developer Sean Kovacs posted on his blog that his Google Voice client, GV Mobile, is getting pulled from the App Store due to "duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc)." Kovacs says he received a call from an Apple staffer, who "wouldn't send a ...
Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault
Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault
techcrunch.com — Earlier today we learned that Apple had begun to pull all Google Voice-enabled applications from the App... Store, citing the fact that they “duplicate features that come with the iPhone”. Now comes even worse news: we’ve learned that ... (more) Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely ...
GV Mobile is getting pulled from App Store
seankovacs.com — Richard Chipman from Apple just called - he told me they’re removing GV Mobile from the App... Store due to it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc). He didn’t actually specify which features, although I assume ... (more) GV Mobile is getting pulled from App Store
Update: It Was AT&T
daringfireball.net — I just posted the following correction to today’s earlier piece on the Google Voice/App Store thing: Well,... so much for my speculation. A reliable little birdie has informed me that it was indeed AT&T that objected to Google Voice apps ... (more) Update: It Was AT&T
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Why’s Apple Messing with Google? (App Store rejections)
Cult of Mac — ... weren’t. But this is supposed to be Apple’s show. Worse, other phones on the AT&T network are allowed to get Google Voice, full SlingPlayer and other functionality that is being held off the iPhone for fear of the traffic burden. If AT&T is behind this, I understand it, but I’m incredibly frustrated. If Apple’s hand is on the switch, I have serious doubts about the company’s ability to hold onto a developer community much longer. TechCrunch: Apple is Growing Rotten to the Core TUAW: GV Mobile and Voice Control Pulled from App Store Apple Screws Google Over ‘Latitude’ ...

Apple Silences Google Voice On the iPhone
TheAppleBlog — ... First it was just apps that gave users access to Google Voice features, but now it seems as though even an official app from Google, who have traditionally been very close with Apple, will not (for now) see the light of day. GV Mobile and Voice Central, two apps that allowed Google Voice users to access the service on their iPhone have been pulled from the App Store for duplicating functionality, and an official Google Voice app won’t see release at all for the same reason. ...

Google Voice becomes persona non grata on App Store
Infinite Loop — ... Not one, but two third-party apps that sport Google Voice functionality have been removed from the App Store this week, and the official Google Voice app (from Google) has ...

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The Google Voice app massacre continues; all GV apps pulled and the official Google GV app denied entryiPhonefreak
We first saw the Twitter message come from GV Mobile developer Sean Kovacs who alerted us that GV Mobile was being pulled from the App Store and sadly the bad news did not stop there. It turns out that a short while later, Apple also pulled all of the other Google Voice apps including ...