Google has announced that they have released an unredacted copy of their response to the FCC’s investigation into Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice iPhone application. The most important nugget in this filling, is the claim that Apple SVP Phil Schiller personally informed Google that the app was in fact rejected because it “duplicated the core […]
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Google Claims Apple Rejected Google Voice App, Apple Denies Claim

Sep 18th 2009 by

Google has announced that they have released an unredacted copy of their response to the FCC’s investigation into Apple’s rejection of the Google Voice iPhone application. The most important nugget in this filling, is the claim that Apple SVP Phil Schiller personally informed Google that the app was in fact rejected because it “duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone”.

The primary points of contact between the two companies were Alan Eustace, Google Senior Vice President of Engineering & Research, and Phil Schiller, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing. On July 7, Mr. Eustace and Mr. Schiller spoke over the phone. It was during this call that Mr. Schiller informed Mr. Eustace that Apple was rejecting the Google Voice application for the reasons described above in 2(a).

In response, Apple has reiterated their claim that they have not rejected the Google Voice app, and are still considering allowing it on the App Store. MacRumors also claims that Google originally publicly released a redacted version of their claim to protect “sensitive commercial communications”. After several requests by organizations and consumers, and compounded by Apple’s release of an unredacted claim of their own, Google decided to release an unredacted version of their claim.
I suspect this is going to get messy, quick.

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