Google said Apple did reject its Google Voice application for the iPhone because it “duplicated the core dialer functionality”, according to parts of an unredacted letter released by the Federal Communications Commission.
Funny, because Apple just said last month that it “continues to study” the application and hadn’t rejected it. (The parts the FCC released today were originally blacked out in that same announcement last month.)
Furthermore Google says in its letter that it was Apple’s Phil Schiller, the senior vice president of worldwide marketing, who told Google’s senior vice president of engineering and research, Alan Eustace, over the phone that the app would be rejected.
Google Voice lets you use a single phone number to receive calls on multiple phones and reach your voicemail. It also lets you send free text messages and make international calls for two cents. When the application never made it into the Apple’s app store and the company removed similar independently-developed apps, the FCC launched an investigation. Google declined to comment on what it will do next.
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