Apple, stop being anti-competitive. Allow other browsers, allow voice dialing and stop trying to cheat customers out of better deals.

Oh and stop overpricing your mobile devices to subsidise cuts in your computer market. iPhone is a high profit, high yield device.

Main Entry: pre·rog·a·tive

Function: noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French & Latin; Anglo-French, from Latin praerogativa, Roman century voting first in the comitia, privilege, from feminine of praerogativus voting first, from praerogatus, past participle of praerogare to ask for an opinion before another, from prae- + rogare to ask — more at right Date: 15th century 1 a: an exclusive or special right, power, or privilege: as (1): one belonging to an office or an official body (2): one belonging to a person, group, or class of individuals (3): one possessed by a nation as an attribute of sovereignty b: the discretionary power inhering in the British Crown 2: a distinctive excellence

What have you seen anywhere on the web that leads you to the conclusion that Apple is trying to integrate Google Voice?

You are the first to suggest this. How could apple do this without Google’s knowledge and permission? GV belongs to Google!

And just so you know there are ALREADY other apps in the app store that allow VOIP/SIP dialing.

As far as gvoice, it is Apple’s perogative. I, personally, have no use for it. squirrel!….

You must have a sad pathetic life if you spend your time looking for spelling/grammar mistakes!

oh come on im much more entertaining than that guy. check out some of my psts on the zune. classics if i do say so myself. plus i do feel that im a bit more level headed than the other guy…..

people always think apple is resting on their laurels. the fact is you dont really hear anything from them until its ready. who knows what theyve got planned.

If they did this, they would be well ahead of the game and steal yet another march on the competition. Because the FCC has decided to make a formal push for net neutrality in a big way. That bandwidth you pay for will be your so use any way you want.

So if Apple was waiting in the wings with a completely integrated seamless blend of Voip/Sip/Cellular available across Wifi/3G/LTE they would have the stage to themselves when Wireless Net Neutrality hits.

Some combination of what Google Voice and Skype and Fring provide would be nice.

LTE is all about the NET anyway. Apple needs to get out in front of it and stop rejecting things just because Google does it better. If they don’t, Android will. In this case, Google has the Vision Thing working overtime, and Apple is just trying to rest on their laurels.

I’m sure i’m not the only one who thinks this. http://tinyurl.com/l27gbm

And No, Rene, you are not REJECTED, you are being studied.

Does anyone even use a dialer anymore?

Funny you should ask that. I used my dialer for the very first time today to order chinese food from a take-out menu I had laying around.

http://www.google.com/support/voice/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=141925

You can’t sign up for an account yet, oh disadvantaged Canadian, but I suspect this will be changed soon.

We can already call you for free on GV. http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2009/08/calls-to-canada-are-free-again.html

if google voice uses your cell minutes then how is it cheaper?

Because I have a ton of minutes, but not for international calling, and most of my customers are international.

But don’t assume CHEAPER is the only reason to have GV, because if you do, you totally miss the point of GV.

if google voice uses your cell minutes then how is it cheaper? yeah voip is cheaper and also available in the app store.

However, this issue and 6 or 8 other NOTHING stories have managed to push the really important story off TiPb’s front page:

http://www.theiphoneblog.com/2009/09/16/iphone-31-bugs-random-freeze-shut/

The Coma Mode issue is WAY more important to WAY more people, and one of the most Active posts on the whole blog, in addition to 53 thousand hits on discussions.apple.com.

Don’t you just tap on a persons name for the most part?

Not for international calls I don’t. GV or Voip is way cheaper.

yeah apples definitely jealous of googles dialer. That must be the problem. Does anyone even use a dialer anymore? Don’t you just tap on a persons name for the most part?

“Continuing to study”. Do they mean pouring over Google’s Source code trying to figure out how Google did so much better at providing a dialer than Apple? Some folks are openly raising this possibility: http://gigaom.com/2009/09/18/apple-rejected-google-apps-because-they-were-better/

This whole thing stinks like yesterday’s fish.

But what is interesting is that Apple contacts TiPb directly. Even if it is a bulk email campaign, it signals that TiPb has worked its way up the pecking order of influential blogs. Kudos for that!!

both companies are probably right in one way or another, if it comes down to either of the companies having a different idea of what constitutes “rejection”.

i think “rejection” is a broad enough concept that two companies can have differing ideas of what it means.

this is all really just a semantic misunderstanding, although i think google is closer to what the “common sense” definition of “rejection” is, and that apple has indeed rejected the app and is merely continually reconsidering that rejection.

in the meantime, customers are caught in the middle of a petty silicon valley turf war. it just so happens that google’s interests more closely align with those of most customers, and apple’s interests do not.

You mean, their prerogative?