Apple gets caught in big fat lie…Phil Schiller DID reject Google Voice. Double standards in play. Ball’s in your court FCC.

  • September 18, 2009 11:28 am

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While the ongoing drama surrounding the Google Voice/Apple App Store fiasco has been relatively quiet these last couple weeks, that doesn’t mean stuff has died down. Oh no…not in the slightest. Remember how Apple claimed a couple weeks ago that they hadn’t approved the Google Voice app but hadn’t exactly rejected it either and that they were merely studying it? Well, a fair amount of you aren’t stupid or three years old and could clearly see Apple was up to something or hiding the truth. Well wouldn’t you know it (surprise surprise) Apple lied. They were hiding the truth. It’s worth noting that it wasn’t just any mindless App Store employee that rejected Google Voice. They reserved a rejection of this magnitude for Phil Schiller himself. On July 7th, Google Voice got the official rejection from Apple/Schiller via phone. What’s even more telling is that this July 7th rejection follows a previous event from April 10th in which Apple rejected Google Latitude. The reason for Google Latitude’s rejection was because it “offers new features not present on the preloaded maps application”.

You read that right. Google Latitude was rejected for offering “new features” and Google Voice was rejected for “duplicating features”. So if you can’t duplicate already present features and you can’t add new features, what the hell is anyone supposed to do? Seems Apple has an obvious case of malice, double standards, stupidity, and all out problem on their hands as now it’s coming out that this was all a big lie. Obviously the reasoning for Google Latitude is ridiculous as thousands of apps in the app store “add new features”. The only questions left are if AT&T had any involvement (most likely) and what will the FCC think of this new development and lying behind the scenes?

RT the hell out of this folks!

Source: Engadget, WSJ


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