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$25 and anyone with an Android SDK can post whatever applications into the Android market!]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
No stupid overpriced Mac hardware you have to buy. Just download the industry standard Eclipse that everyone is already experienced with. And download the Android plugin and you are ready to go. Standard Java that everyone already knows, no wasting time learning Objective C that no one but Apple uses.

And Android + Google Voice is amazingly cool. Only just starting to grasp just how much stuff you can do with it.

]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 1:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
That's one of the problems of the Android Market. There's so much spam on it by people who mass upload apps. Hopefully they allow you to blacklist certain authors in a future update.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
WinMo market is exactly like that.

Have you even heard of sites such as XDA-Developers or PPCGeeks, just to name a couple?

For WinMo you can create anything and everything with tried and true industry standard tools, post them as .cab files or self-installing .exe's and share them between phones via BT, OTA exchange, direct PC transfer, email, IR, you name it, all without paying anyone a single cent for royalties.

WinMo is arguably the most open mobile platform out there, bar none, and it can also be the cheapest (free) for designing, building, and distributing your product.]]>Jul 28th 2009 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
@WindowsFTW, you are kidding right? WinMo is not, has never been, and will never be an open platform. Just like the iPhone OS, RIM, Symbian ... An open platform does not mean one that you can program for or one that has a low entrance requirement. Plus WinMo is just as expensive to develop for as it is for the iPhone. VS Express has none of the tools that developers need and licensing cost for VS alone are not that cheap. Then you have the problem of a totally inconsistent hardware install base, etc.

As far as the actual appstore rejection goes, Google Voice is still an invitation only service. It sucks that Apple allows AT&T to dictate their approval policy and I really hope show them the finger soon. However, I'm pretty sure that by the time Google Voice is out of alpha stage the app will be in the appstore.]]>Jul 28th 2009 4:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Rather, WinMo IS ARGUABLY the most open platform to code for.
That is to say, ANYONE can code for WinMo, share their application with the community, and rarely, if ever, have to deal with any of the powers that be.

The methods of app distribution on WinMo are also second to none.

In this regard, WinMo is the most "open" platform out there.]]>Jul 28th 2009 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
RIM (Blackberry) uses Java for mobile development. As did several manufacturers when people still used BREW and J2ME. Not to mention that WinMo has a Java environment available to install.]]>Jul 28th 2009 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/WTF!, every non smartphone i have ever owned has had java ME since 2004!, you know, that little "Java Games" option]]>Jul 28th 2009 6:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Then WinMo is at best equal to android since android apps can also be packaged by anyone, distributed by anyone and be transferred/installed to the phone multiple ways (outside of the app market). When I had a G1 I would typically install .apk files directly from the browser (after installing astro file manager which allows you to extract archives and install .apk files within them)]]>Jul 28th 2009 8:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Are you blind? That is exactly what the iPhone app store situation is now, wow. Read up on it lol. There was stats posted here before I believe that mentioned most people who buy apps dont use them past very short ammounts of time like even less than a week.

Get a clue, Android market is far less dilluted at the moment. I agree that it could change, but your head is def. up your ass]]>Jul 28th 2009 8:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
I can't get it in Canada

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I'll admit that I'm not very good at C, but I know enough of it to be annoyed by objective-C, the fact that College classes and Macs are the ONLY ones to still use it, and there is also no reason I should need to buy a Mac to program in it.

With the "cellphone app" market heating up, developers are going to go with whatever platform can be used on the most number of phones with the least number of porting.]]>Jul 28th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
As someone who spent WAY to much time on developing SW for j2me before realizing the hard truth, I have been waiting for something like android on nice devices. I have played with the idea of wifi-devices and fonero like infrastructure but very little happens, and probably for a good reason. The market being stifled by these eh.. lack of word here. . entitys. The only hope I have is OSS coupled with furious device development driven by market competition.. that is FAIR market competition, not oligopols.]]>Sep 11th 2009 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Get out of here, you apparently know little regarding this topic.

Besides, it's noone's but Apple's fault that we're in this mess in the first place. I mean, seriously? Are you kidding me? Apple is making TONS off each iPhone sold and they're bitching at Google for _improving_ the device? Shame... Oh well, guess I'll just trade my Blackberry in for an Android device... (Though I was going to do that anyways...)]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Apple pulled the app most likely because AT&T wanted them to.
Apple had the upper hand to begin with - everyone wants the iPhone. AT&T is not in a position to tell Apple what to do, especially if they want Apple to stay with them exclusively. They would have had trouble hanging on to it anyway, but with them telling Apple what to do, they're pretty much screwed, IMHO.]]>Jul 29th 2009 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://truvoipbuzz.com/2009/07/thank-you-apple-for-blocking-google-voice-app-opinion/]]>Jul 31st 2009 8:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
P.S. google blows!]]>Jul 28th 2009 8:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 8:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Q9MJdT5Ds
]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 9:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
BTW, I have push GChat on my WM phone, have since GChat was launched....Thanks, palringo w/ Jabber!]]>Jul 29th 2009 9:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/$20 a month for the texting alone is $480 over the life of the contract, and while I myself wouldn't ever bother to use a cell carrier's international calling plan (because the rates are awful) a lot of other people do and would probably have saved a ton of cash with Google Voice.
Of course they can't really entirely block it anyway since (for now anyway) you can just log into the Google Voice page and trigger calls and SMS from there but I guess they're trying to make it as inconvenient as possible.

Oh well at least Google Voice probably wouldn't ever be banned on a Sprint smartphone since all those text messages would already be included.]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Wrong wrong wrong....
This isn't about that, as a matter of fact, GV SMS isn't meant to replace your phone SMS service, but to allow you one number for life that includes both voice and sms - & seamless changes to phone numbers --- so once you have a GV #, if you change your cell phone #, or carrier w/o porting, etc. you don't need to inform everyone of your new number --- this was possible with lots of other services, but none of them allowed you incoming and outgoing SMS message forwarding. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
i hate people like you that have no idea what you're talking about, but really just love to talk and make it seem like you do. do you even have google voice? if you did, and had a phone w/ a decent mobile browser, you would know that you can turn off the sms forwarding (so it doesn't forwarded sms messages from your google voice number to your actual cell) and you can send and view incoming messages on your browser. not to mention that once your on your computer, you can send them quite easily

to give you even more proof that google voice, especially w/ a proper app will replace the $20 dollars a month that att charges. i've had gvoice for the last 11 days, i've sent over 400 messages using my google voice number. total i receive the first one through my phone number in the last 11 days (when i average about 1200 or so a month). and that was because the person who messaged me didn't save my gvoice number. i downgraded from the $20 unlimited to the $5 200 message plan, and you better believe whenever there's a winmo app, i'm def going to drop from the $5 to a pay as you go. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 5:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Being able to send the messages from the computer is even more of a plus... and then you don't have to pay for their useless voicemail services (if they have any addons to those.. i think they do.. but idk) because GV will transcribe the voicemail then email/sms it to you, or even allow you to play it back any time from a computer or your phone...

Disclaimer: I'm sure there are typos... its 5:20am, don't like it? then skip my post and keep reading.]]>Jul 28th 2009 6:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
This is Apple's fault. Not ATT's.]]>Jul 28th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 29th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Too, not to!]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 2:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Looks like he pulled a fast one on them.]]>Jul 28th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Although I do enjoy their mobile web gmail, I'm not sure a web based work around would be great for voice. Now I'm dieing for Android.]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Blackberry has a Google Voice app and the last time I checked there are Blackberry phones on AT&T.

]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/Jul 28th 2009 12:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
Do you know how many Curves and Pearls are in the wild??]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/(correct me if im wrong again...) Theres 10 million + iPhones on ATT with the number of people buying them increasing, more than blackberries. ]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
now your point of approval is a good one... Do you think if they had to approve the app for Blackberry that they would have blocked it?]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
You must know that on average, an iPhone user uses SEVERAL times more data than the average bb user. Shit, my gf has a bb, and all she ever does that uses bandwidth is load those shitty, pictureless web sites in bb's shitty browser.

What % of bb users have theirs through work? Sure, they do email, but they aren't streaming video or uploading to facebook or using other network-intensive apps to the same extent that the average iPhone user does.

AT&T knows this, and so they tax iPhone users more. The rejection of the Slingbox application is completely demonstrative of this. You disagree?

AT&T is scared shitless that they're going to lose control in this battle. Jesus, Verizon cripples wi-fi on their handsets for the same reason.

It's all lame, but I do think that iPhone users get the worst of it, and it's more AT&T's fault than Apple's]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/28/google-voice-iphone-app-rejected-current-gv-apps-lose-connectio/
I suspect that once the iPhone exclusivity with AT&T ends we'll see a lot more cool apps. Personally I use GC numbers as my primary business numbers and I was really looking forward to this. Hopefully they will get it worked out. I'm holding off on a 3Gs until some of this shit gets settled.]]>Jul 28th 2009 12:35AM