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It's similar to what Gruber posted on daringfireball:

"Great new service, sort of like Google Voice but private."

I guess implying that Google have access to your phone calls and this company isn't going to.

More importantly, your voicemails are being used to process speech-text (Google's transcription service), and train Google's speech recognition algorithm.

Yeah, I couldn't figure out what Gruber meant by that. I guess it means that it's like Google Voice, except you have to pay for it, and it's not run by a big company that you can count on to stay in business for a long time.

Mostly it just means that Gruber is a clueless one-note hater.

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