Official Google Voice App Approved For iOS 147
silverpig writes "Apple has finally approved the official Google Voice app for iOS. After 16 months of being in app-review limbo, the app is finally here, but only for users in the US, and not for iPod Touch users. An interesting use for the app would be to use it as a dialing front end on an iPod touch in concert with a VOIP service, but it seems like this isn't an option for now. It seems like non-US users can get the app if they have a US iTunes account. You can create a US iTunes account without a credit card by following this Apple article."
Canada? (Score:4, Interesting)
Google Voice sounds really cool... Sure wish they'd bring it to Canada... In time I guess...
Now, if only iPod Touch support... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Whats worse? (Score:5, Interesting)
Not offering the service outside the US I can understand, it takes time and money to work through any regulatory issues covering phone service in any country.
Apple sitting on it for 1.5 years? Less execusable. Stop me while I don't rush out to buy an iPhone.
Re:I can't believe people take this kind of abuse. (Score:3, Interesting)
Apple is clearly abusing its users: If you buy one of my outrageously overpriced devices, you will only be able to login as an unprivileged user, we reserve the right to login as administrators.
Isn't this precisely what a security or network consulting firm would do? Company X pays the company $y per year to take care of all connection-related issues, and even information management. What Apple has done is bring this to the individual consumer, rather than just corporate clients. What's so bad about that?
Just playing devil's advocate here; I'm the proud owner of a Nexus One myself, but I also work in IT.
What's the big deal? (Score:2, Interesting)
Yes, Google Voice is a VOIP service (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Now, if only iPod Touch support... (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:First time for everything (Score:4, Interesting)
Except that Google is still providing the content, (all Apple really did was write a thin wrapper around google maps - the web version).
Google sneaks in Traffic via croud sourcing, trails, bike routes and a lot of other content that Apple can't prevent, because all they are actually getting is images fed to them by google.
Its pretty funny really, Apple brags they wrote maps, only to have Traffic show up on the Exact day Google releases it and Apple was none the wiser (and by some reports pisses off).
But all the cool Google maps features added to Android are missing from from the iPhone.
Re:The difference between Android & Iphone. (Score:3, Interesting)
But that's about as difficult as the process is to create a Kindle account, a Steam account, a Google Checkout account or any other online account.
Are you saying that Kindle and Steam are both user unfriendly?