I lowered my phone plan to the cheapest plan AT&T has to save some money. I've been using Google Voice and iSip for a few months now and it works nicely from home and the office. I never actually purchased GVmobile because I thought that Google would release an official app and it would be free in no time. That app was submitted to the App Store 6 weeks ago. Now we know it was denied. The GVmobile people have said that the Apple statement was that it "Duplicates functionality" with the iPhone... which is complete utter bullshit because the iPhone does not have Google Voice integration and thats all that the App did. Additionally, if its that the iPhone already has SMS... theres a ton of other Apps they have to ban. Same situation with the dialer, there's a billion of them already. Now, last time I remember that they just lied like that to everyone that I can remember this vividly, where a high-profile app got denied access to the App Store was with Podcaster. For the same reason "it duplicates functionality". This didnt turn to be true, until the next update in which Apple did include very similar functionality straight into the iTunes App. Hopefully this is the same deal and Apple integrates it straight into the phone and while they're at it they should also enable Google Latitude. Of course, these things are not likely to happen and they make me wish I had an Android phone. There... I said it.
Lies I tell myself to keep hope alive on Google Voice
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