Google Voice allows for CHEAPER phone calls, so I don’t see how this is “duplication” of anything other than having a screen with buttons that range from 0 to 9. But really, this is just hogwash and a poor excuse for the inexcusable. Apple said that the various Google Voice applications “duplicate functionality” and hence they were not authorized. Right now, having Apple blocking this innovation and natural progress does not look very good to my eyes. Needless to say, I am enthusiastic about it. Google Voice is not itself a SIP VoIP service, but it’s a service that definitely helps you spend less money on communication. Right now, the 3G and 3.5G data networks are not very good in terms of latency compared to pure 3G/GSM voice, but once this stumbling block goes away, even the carriers themselves will have to move to a more “software-based” solution for voice calls, something that will resemble today’s VoIP technologies.

satellite, GSM) when short-range communication is not available, but VoIP via WiFi or 4G or WiMax or whatever is the next big thing, will have to eventually take over. Sure, there will always be alternative ways as a backup technology (e.g.

Let me say this aloud: VoIP is the future of A/V communication. UPDATE: A more direct, more personal, reply from me to Apple and AT&T.

For those who have read my blog over the years, would probably remember my VoIP-related rants since 2005. Read on for a quick commentary, from the point of view of not an Apple or Google fangirl, but from someone who genuinely appreciates VoIP SIP (even if Google Voice itself is not VoIP, read on). The news just broke that Apple has rejected the official upcoming Google Voice application, and stopped distributing the third party “GV” application, an app that was previously authorized.

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