Apple Files Its Answers to the FCC Over Google Voice
FULL STATEMENT FROM APPLE
Contrary to published reports, Apple has not rejected the Google Voice application, and continues to study it. The application has not been approved because, as submitted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone’s distinctive user experience by replacing the iPhone’s core mobile telephone functionality and Apple user interface with its own user interface for telephone calls, text messaging and ...
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Is the same with the new version of iTunes not letting Palm Pre users sync with their phones
This is the equivelant to a football team choosing who they will play against and who they won't.
I feel Apple makes a very good product. But being held to dictatorship and constraints in what I can have or not have, is not what I am about.
A monopoly??? Diamond, this isn't how a monopoly starts. It's Apple's service, and they can do with it as they like. Denying anyone's app isn't going to create an unfair market, since the "market" is just a service for a device.
Everyone is bi$#@ing about Apple and their dictatorship, but it's THEIR service that THEY offer. If I owned a Cheverolet dealership and I let the neighboring Ford dealer put his cars on my lot for free, that would be poor business sense, since ...
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It only gets worse when you add the fact that google also makes an os that competes with the iphone. this will not go well for apple.
And if anyone tries to claim apple is slowing technology, they need to look at apple's track record for innovation and design. If anything, apple has furthered it, and forced the industry to step up.
But seriously, can anyone find a copy of the "anti-trust" laws, and quote what is actually being violated, because really, apple is only restricting what THEY offer. Apple, doesn't HAVE to offer, GOOGLE apps. Chevy, doesn't have to offer Ford cars. Funny, aren't a ton of car parts proprietary? But no one whines like they do about apple. Everyone just hates on a...
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Because its a terrible analagy. Imagine you own a chevy. And your chevy needs a camshaft, And now imagine that ford makes a camshaft for your car that gives you better gas mileage 20% more horsepower and costs less than the camshaft that chevy makes. But chevy, using a magical forcefield technology, can keep you from using your own money to put that camshaft on your own car.
This is the crux of the matter. Apple has used technology to accomplish something in the virtual world (locking down their phone) which could never be accomplished in the real world outside of an injunction. One which would n...
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Side note if apple could do whatever they wanted they would not be answering to the FCC. And the FCC would not be asking 3 major companies apple, att, and Google about the whole situation.
att has already blamed apple so it seems like apple has got some explanning to do.
SS EarlGoodman said:
And people need to begin understanding thats what happens when you choose to go with an iphone, if you want freedom, Androids the way.
or jailbreak it and then you will have your freedom back again..
famoussasjohn said:
or jailbreak it and then you will have your freedom back again..
And also ask why Rogers and some other companies didn't buy Google Branded Android phones? I admit not nearly as heavy handed as Apple but still.
or to provide its “Google-branded†user experience on other phones, including Android-based phones, and let consumers make their choices.
I think this was my favorite part. Translation: We don't really care if this makes you mad or not. If you want to get this product get a different phone.
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