On July 28 2009, a couple of iPhone applications that presented support for Google Voice were callously, and without caution, removed from Apple’s App Store. We then learned that Apple had blocked the official Google Voice application as well, which sooner or later led to a FCC investigation. A year afterward, Google Voice was still lacking from the App Store. Now it seems there may be a sparkle of hope for receiving Google Voice on your iPhone.
A few days earlier Apple unconfined guidelines clearly spelling out for the first time what it would refuse from the App Store. Sean Kovacs, the developer of third party Google Voice application GV Mobile (which was detached from the App Store over a year ago), examined through each of the 100+ rules, and he wrapped up that his app didn’t appear to contravene any of them. He emailed Apple’s approval board to see if he could maybe get his app restored. The reply was encouraging.
Kovacs, who states that an Apple spokesperson responded that given the new guidelines unconfined today, he was welcome to resubmit GV Mobile for review.
Obviously, nothing is definite yet. This could be a case of an App Store critic stepping out of line and making a slip-up. It’s likely that Apple will say this violates rule 8.3, which states “Apps which appear confusingly similar to an existing Apple product or advertising theme will be rejected” (this is parallel to the “reducing functionality” clarification that Apple gave to the FCC very last summer).
Or It could represent that Google Voice, even though from a third party application, could at last make its way back to the iPhone. Google has given this announcement on this aspect: “We at this time offer Google Voice mobile apps for Blackberry and Android, and we offer a HTML5 web app for the iPhone. We have not anything additional to declare at this time.”
Google Voice Be Available At The App Store Again
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