Apple put Google’s Voice app into perpetual review, essentially blocking the app from the iPhone. Just when Apple and Google seemed to be making friends again, Apple turned into a proprietary bully. Apple claims that the Google voice app duplicates several iPhone features like the dialer and text messaging.
Google works around Apple’s iPhone
Google responded by developing a free Web app, rather than an Apple-approved native app. The free web app works on HTML5. Google has used HTML5 to develop a mobile Web interface to Google Voice (at m.google.com/voice, for iPhone OS 3.0 and higher and Palm Web OS devices) that works much like a native app. It integrates easily with the new Droids as well, (Good for you, Google!!)
Google Voice offers you free texting, cheap international calls and transcribed voice mail. It gives you a different phone number you can direct to any of your phones. The down side is that it doesn’t interface with the iPhone contact list, but you can get around this by exporting that list into Google Mail and then uploading it back to the Google Voice list.
Why can’t the big guys play nice? There is always a work-around, so why not just work together in the first place? Do you have an iPhone? Are you tired of Apple’s proprietary behavior?
