"Let’s get real about this Google Voice thing. It’s totally the wave of the future, a future invented by Apple via the iPhone and then handed off to Google and eventually Microsoft for shrinkwrapping. "
That's odd, because I was using Grand Central and PhoneTag/Simulscribe before there was Google Voice and iPhone. On my Blackberry. Too bad RIM doesn't fit into this conspiracy theory or he could have worked Canadian health care in too.
This story looks like another attempt by Arrington to cast himself as an important person in tech.
CrunchPad competes with Apple in the portable computing market. TechCrunch is likely biased when reporting Apple and Google portable computing news, especially when reported by Michael Arrington.
i love me a good unsubstantiated conspiracy theory. my favorite became a great james ellroy novel "american tabloid". this story didn't have as much punch as 'tabloid', but was still fun nonetheless.