Anthony Wlodarski wrote:
Yes but your chances of getting an app published are slim to none with
an iPhone. I find this to be true as the big G was denied this
morning.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
I own a Touch Pro. When making web apps I tailor the standards to the
minimum that that phone has (runs Opera too).
The rejection of Google Voice could be the end of the iPhone, or at
least an opportunity for a competitor to get in.
From the viewpoint of telephone carriers, Google Voice is a
disruptive technology. Allow people to route calls to VoIP or landline
could cut seriously into the the "selling minutes" racket that is the
main business of the carriers. Google Voice gives you (practical)
number portability without filling out paperwork, waiting or dealing
with complex legal requirements.
In the long term, the carriers can't make a profit from both
selling minutes and selling data services: a minute of cell phone
service is (at most) 18kb of data, and more like 9kb when you consider
TASI. Pages at big internet properties (Yahoo and Facebook) are
typically around 40kb, and that's the equivalent of 4 minutes right
there... If you sell data service at a price people can accept, VoIP
will undercut minutes, so carriers are pressured to control what people
can do with the data service.
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