Apple's app flap: Don't blame AT&T

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>> You may have heard that Apple recently rejected the Google Voice App for the iPhone. But what I couldn't figure out was why some critics are trying to make AT&T look like the bad guy. Suddenly there were questions about whether AT&T was involved in that decision. But the way I see it there's no way AT&T was involved in that. Anyone who has used Google Voice understands that it isn't actually a phone technology. Google Voice uses the web to initiate a phone call but it still requires a land line or mobile phone service to place and receive those calls. If Google voice calls are initiated and processed over a mobile device, AT&T's actually double dipping on that call because it started on the data network but completed over the voice network. Even though Apple hasn't commented publically on the app rejection and we don't know the answers to the questions that Washington regulators are suddenly asking about it, it seems obvious that Apple, not AT&T was the driving force behind it. In fact AT&T actually went on the record with a brief statement saying that it had no part in the rejection of Google's app. As for me, I believe AT&T. I don't know why Apple would want to reject the Google Voice App seeing how it doesn't really compete in that space and it's already approved other VoIP apps such as Skype. Obviously Apple had its reasons but I won't be holding my breath waiting for Stew Jobs and company to explain those reasons to me.

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