The Apple App Store rejected the Google Voice Application. Though the iPhone and iPod Touch has YouTube and Google Maps applications pre-installed on each device, Apple (and AT&T?) decided that they can’t allow Google Voice to run on the popular smartphone and music player.

Google Voice is a free Internet service that uses VoIP technology to link phone numbers together. GrandCentral was relaunched as Google Voice on March 11, 2009 with new features, including voicemail transcriptions and SMS managing.

Google has official Google Voice Apps running on the BlackBerry and Android. But Apple banned the application saying it has “duplicate features that come with the iPhone.”

Strong as the App Store is, its reasons like these things that are making people jailbreak their devices. This is a BIG fail for Apple.

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