Google Voice to be Released as Web-Based iPhone App

2:44 pm on August 8, 2009 | Category: Software, Telecom Services, Web Services

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Google is reportedly planning to sidestep the rejection of its ‘Voice’ software from Apple’s App Store, by releasing the application for free online.

The web-based version of Google Voice is specially designed to fit an iPhone screen and will include all the same features as the original version, including free SMS messaging and reduced-rate international calling.

This latest move by Google highlights some interesting possibilities for other software developers whose products have been rejected from the App Store. Releasing an application online doesn’t come with the same built-in publicity as Apple’s popular marketplace, but it does offer a possible fall-back option for aspiring iPhone software developers who don’t measure up to Apple’s criteria.

Unless Apple changes its standards in the near future, we can expect to see plenty of developers follow Google’s lead (or at least try).

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    1. Time has changed. Apple is forbidding iPhone users to install Google Voice app on the device. They decided to take it off App Store. Why? Just because.
      This smart phone is essentially a computer with operating system and an ability to install third party software like any other computer. When I called Apple, tech support representative informed me that Apple does not have to explain why they are forbidding me to install Google apps after I purchased device planning to use it with Google Voice. She also informed me that App Store is like any other store has right to choose what they put on their shelves.
      Well, I respect their choice, but the last time I checked in my neighborhood mall none of their stores are FORBIDING me to use products from anywhere else but from their store. Does Apple respect my choice? Communist China government did not dare to make Lenovo give me a list of software I can install on my laptop. Lenovo respects my choice because they know what will happen with their laptops if they would try to deny this choice to people in free world.
      Just imagine what would happen if Microsoft make an agreement with Comcast and set up a list of software you are allowed to install. What if they allow you to connect to internet only through Comcast? What if Comcast decides they not like some software and a week later Microsoft would FORBIDS using it without any meaningful explanation? That would definitely be considered mafia-like behavior and nobody would tolerate it.
      We are not tolerating this behavior neither from China, US government, Microsoft, nor from Comcast. For how long are we going to tolerate this behavior from Apple? I erased my iPhone, I smashed it with hammer and I will send it on Monday to Steve Jobs, c/o Apple 1 Infinite Loop Cupertino, CA 95014
      Time has changed.

      Comment by Alex — August 8, 2009 #

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