I mean, seriously.

Apple’s chief com­plaint against the Google Voice appli­ca­tion was “The appli­ca­tion has not been approved because, as sub­mit­ted for review, it appears to alter the iPhone’s dis­tinc­tive user expe­ri­ence by replac­ing the iPhone’s core mobile tele­phone func­tion­al­ity and Apple user inter­face with its own user inter­face for tele­phone calls…” […]

And that’s ok, because we all know that the real rea­son Apple won’t let Google Voice through is that they are scared out of their mind that Android and Google Voice will eat their iPhone lunch over the long term. Apple can’t win the fight over the long term, but they sure are will­ing to say and do any­thing in the short term to stop the advance of Google.

But you’d think they’d at least be con­sis­tent and apply the same argu­ments to other third party apps. At least until this whole FCC thing blows over.

But Skype’s call­ing app, which uses Wifi, is totally fine. And yes­ter­day, the Von­age iPhone app, which seems to be just as much of an issue as Google Voice based on that quote at the top, got the green light, too.

Users can use Wifi or cel­lu­lar min­utes, and have to open the Von­age appli­ca­tion to make calls. They’ll save a bun­dle on inter­na­tional calling.

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