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Apple and Google Spar Over App Store

Last week Google released an "unredacted" version of its response to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission investigation into Apple's supposed rejection of Google's app which would have allowed iPhone users access to the Google Voice online service.

Google's response clashes with that of Apple's saying that Senior Vice President Phil Schiller personally called Google to inform them that the app had been rejected for the reason that it "duplicated the core dialer functionality of the iPhone". This is a contradiction of Apple's response which asserted that the app had not been rejected and was still being studied.

Later last week Apple also released a statement, reasserting that Apple had not rejected the Google voice app and continues to be in discussions with Google.