Corporate Vengance: There's an App For That!

Having witnessed their Voice application blocked on Apple’s iPhone applications store, Google has circumvented Apple’s resistance by updating Voice, allowing users to access it via web browser.

Story from AP (Courtesy of Yahoo! News):

Apple has refused to allow the Voice program to be distributed through the iPhone’s applications store since last summer on grounds that it would duplicate or alter important iPhone features. To get around that roadblock, Google is trying to entice iPhone users to rely on a mobile Web browser to access Voice….

The jousting over the Voice application underscores the rising tensions between Google and Apple, the two most valuable companies in Silicon Valley.

Apple’s rebuff of Google’s Voice application triggered a Federal Communications Commission inquiry into whether Apple and AT&T Inc., the iPhone’s exclusive U.S. service provider, were trying to stifle potential competition.

Take that!  Google is just doing what they always do, breaking rules and finding new and usually cheaper ways of doing things, breaking down the barriers between providers and consumers, enabling consumers to call the shots instead of the providers.  Lesson:  don’t fuck with Google.  Or they will fiiiind yoooou… (or in this case just make a web-browser-able application to use on your phone).