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Is Apple developing a competitor to Google Voice? I'm thinking of it from the perspective of Apple looking ahead towards carrier in-exclusistivity and seeing so
by jsz0 17y ago
Is Apple developing a competitor to Google Voice? I'm thinking of it from the perspective of Apple looking ahead towards carrier in-exclusistivity and seeing some obvious benefit to owning the customer and making the carrier irrelevant. Apple's claim of duplicate functionality would make a lot more sense in this context.
- wvenable 17y agoI don't think Apple is developing a competitor to Google Voice -- which is probably part of the problem. If they did build a competitor, it really wouldn't matter. Apple could do it better and more seamlessly. However, what's really happening is that Apple is seeing the writing on the wall. A lot of the core functionality of the phone, like Maps and search, are already provided by Google. Once you add in Google Voice with call management, voicemail, and SMS then suddenly it's not really Apple's phone anymore -- it's Google's.
- jhancock 17y agoPerhaps they are, perhaps its closer to what they claim. Hard to say. But that part should not matter much. I expect the FCC to protect the consumer in this case. I expect limits on the stranglehold a company (Apple or ATT) can have on the consumer that purchases product or service from a device vendor or carrier. Neutrality and independence enable competition. I want an FCC that embraces these concepts as it should be better for the entire economy, not just a few companies.