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• How can I test it?? I love google voice! : scapin
• Why did they reject it? : alnya
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  http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/27/apple-is-growing-rotten-to-the-core-and-its-likely-atts-fault/ : Warlock
  • Motherfucker. I want Google Voice for an iPhone when I get one. Goddammit! : Rice-Rocketeer
• I would jailbreak for this app. I hope Apple feels a little pressure on this and reconsiders soon. : Warlock
• Do you mean they removed the app? They couldn't have rejected it, because I've downloaded it a while bac... : Matt Burris
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  has anyone an invite to google voice? I keep reading about it on the shack and would like to try it out. : razorblade79
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    google is doling them out themselves. they haven't given invites to us gvoice users yet : Draugluin
    • oh I just read "US only" anyway. ah well, sounds really neat though : razorblade79
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  What exactly does Google Voice do? I don't keep up with phone app stuff. : Old_Fart
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    http://voice.google.com it's like a phone forwarding service, but so much more. i love it! : suqur
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      Wow that seems really neat. First I've heard of this. : Chod
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        Also now I need to get on this, need an invite, hurry up Google. : Chod
        • I'm in the same boat. I've been waiting for months. One of my coworkers just requested one from Google ... : mathyou
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  Yeah, that's pretty lame. The Android integration looks awesome tho. It might actually help make my decis... : suqur
  • Yea.. I've been dying for an iPhone, but with the new stuff coming out with a reskinned android and no so... : stonedonkey
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  I really hope there's a firestorm over this. Google needs to get those fancy lobbyists they hired to sta... : hawkeye
  • Latitude + Voice have really pissed me off. I agree. : askedrelic
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  It's such bullshit. I just got a Google Voice account and an app for it would be indispensable. This and... : tfboc
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    What was the reason behind killing Latitude on iPhone? : stonedonkey
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      Another map app would "confuse" users... cuz we iz dum hehe duurrr Fucking lame. The fact that Apple is... : tfboc
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        There are hundreds of apps in the store that are similar to Latitude. Brightkite, Loopt, and Whrrl could... : hawkeye
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          Apple's gatekeeper system is fucked. Period. : Fred Garvin
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            It's unfortunate too. I really love having one place to look for and buy apps. Integrated centralized updates are fucking awesome.
            
            But holy hell in a bucket did they screw up the approval process.
            
            I'm not sure anyone else is doing a better job either. I don't know much about Android's marketplace and I'm sure MS is going to do just as bad or worse than Apple. A transparent democratic system for approval seems appealing but I'm not sure how well it would work.

            Jul 28, 2009 7:10am PDT
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            It's unfortunate too. I really love having one place to look for and buy apps. Integrated centralized u... : hawkeye
            • Offer what Microsoft does. You can get WM apps anywhere, but also have a store. : Fred Garvin
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  So GoogleVoice is a VOIP app on phones? Not sure what the point is if that's the case. Either you use you... : Fred Garvin
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    Uh...you could do away with you minuets, and save money? : JohnnyRey
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      Would any carrier let you do that? : Fred Garvin
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        Yes? : JohnnyRey
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          Do you end every comment with a question mark? : fishbone
          • Yes ? : JohnnyRey
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    No, Google Voice acts as a single phone number for ALL your phone numbers. So, Google assigns (you act... : stonedonkey
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      thats not really what the google voice app was doing here. People are using the transcribe service to tur... : Slowtreme
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        That's another one of the features yes (also not duplicating funcationality) but the article I read earli... : stonedonkey
        • The duplicating functionality argument isn't a good one anyways and Apple ought to know better. : hawkeye
        • thats not what the iphone app does though, thats what the service does. : Slowtreme
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      So it's call forwarding? : Fred Garvin
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        Not just that: http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html : Nitrium
        • /shrug I guess I don't use my cell enough to get excited about that. : Fred Garvin
• I have GV and haven't found a compelling reason to keep using it. Perhaps the app would've changed my mi... : jingletard