[ NNSquad ] Re: The Truth: What's Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&T and the FCC

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

On 08/22 14:10, George Ou wrote:
> So when are the apologies coming from all the conspiracy theorists now that
> Apple and AT&T have stated clearly on the record that AT&T had nothing to do
> with the App store decision?

George brings up a significant point.  There was an awful lot of
piling on to AT&T in this case in the absence of direct evidence that
AT&T was involved in the Google Voice reject (and it *was* a reject,
Apple's current protests to the contrary notwithstanding).  I'm
willing to take AT&T's statement of noninvolvement in this particular
case at face value based on what we know right now.

I have focused my own concerns in this case at Apple, not at AT&T.
The Google Voice situation strikes me as basically another example of
Apple's screwed up (in my opinion) handling of iPhone apps, and I have
not been interested in yelling loudly at AT&T about this in the
absence of proof of AT&T complicity.  Frankly, it would have been so
hamfisted for AT&T to try block GV that way that it didn't seem likely
to me, but for Apple to block GV was completely in keeping with Apple's
app approval modus operandi up to now.

Many of the people pointing at AT&T as a culprit seemed to have
assumed that GV was a VoIP product that bypassed use of wireless
minutes, but for the current GV app this is not the case, as I have
pointed out in various venues.

I would agree with George that some apologies would seem to be in
order from various of the "Why AT&T Killed Google Voice" articles'
authors.

--Lauren-- 
NNSquad Moderator

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