Google: Apple lied about rejecting Google Voice from AppStore
Sep 22, 2009 google, mobile, phones, software
The latest exploitation in the Federal Communications Commission investigation into the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Voice iPhone app rejection by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is a juicy one. Following on Apple’s denial that the Google Voice iPhone app was explicitly rejected, Google has gone ahead and posted their full comment on the spot. In their statement, they allege that Apple’s own VP of Worldwide Product Marketing, Phil Schiller, called Google Senior Vice President of Engineering &ere; research Alan Eustace to let him know that the Google’s Google Voice iPhone app had been denied entry to the AppStore. And that’s not even the juicy part!
The timeline of events here is what’s interesting. First, The FCC launched an investigating into Apple’s manipulation of iPhone apps – sparked by Apple’s ban of third-party Google Voice apps GV Mobile and VoiceCentral from the AppStore. That investigating prompted a reaction from Apple, in which they title that the Google Voice app from Google was still under thoughtfulness for the AppStore. Google also responded to the FCC’s enquiry into Apple’s AppStore rejection policies, but requested the Federal Communications Commission to keep the comment under wraps.
This is where it gets merriment.
With Apple sticking steadfast to their floor that they hadn’t rejected the app, Google today lifted their Federal Communications Commission confidentiality request, allowing the public to finally see Google’s full commentary on the matter. In Google’s full response to the Federal Communications Commission, they rap Apple for straightaway out rejected the Google Voice app. Google says that Apple rejected the app because the dialer duplicated functionality that was already available on the iPhone (the earphone dialer).
On July 7, Eustace and Schiller spoke over the earphone. It was during this call that Mr. Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller informed Mr. Eustace that Apple was rejecting the Google Voice diligence for the reasons describe above in 2(a).
On Apple’s position, the iPhone maker responded, in a statement to Silicon Alley Insider, that Apple does “not agree with all of the statements made by Google in their Federal Communications Commission letter. Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application and we continue to discuss it with Google.”
So, if Google’s comment is to be believed, Apple lied to the Federal Communications Commission about rejecting Google Voice from the AppStore. If Apple is right field, Google is prevarication about their Google Voice app being rejected. They tin’t both be right field. Either Apple or Google lied to the FCC, and will probably rich person to facing the music sometime soon. What sort of music volition that be? Probably the kind that brings heavy federal sanctions down on the prevaricator.
Read Apple’s full comment here. Read Google full comment here. Read AT&T (New York Stock Exchange: T) comment here.
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