Apple holds up release of Google voice app for iPhone


	Apple holds up release of Google voice app for iPhone

Brian Caulfield

11-16-2008 6:03 PM

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Brian Caulfield says:

Philip Elmer-DeWitt at Apple 2.0 makes a great point. Google hustles to put a cool voice-recognition app on the phone -- bypassing its own Android software -- and Apple treats it "shabbily." Isn't this how Apple lost the PC wars?

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