Apple is under the cosh again over its applications policy for the iPhone. Last time, it was supposedly 'adultish' stuff that got the raised eyebrow, this time Apple has rejected an app for the Google Voice applications. By Ian Scales.
Or (as those involved suspect) AT&T, which distributes the iPhone in the US, has insisted Apple do so.
Indeed so far the Google Voice (see - Be very afraid: Google Voice has Landed) features are only available to US users and at this point only by invitation, but while Google has developed an official client for Blackberry and for its own Android environments, it has been banned from iPhone by Apple as have a range of other voice-oriented apps which Apple says duplicate features already available on the phone and therefore cannot pass.
Meanwhile, music streaming site, Spotify, is playing it clever with Apple. (see Spotify goes mobile with Android: will an iPhone version follow?) That company has been gearing up to get its client accepted on the iPhone (arguably the most influential smartphone platform for leading-edge applications) and is playing up the process for all it's worth.
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