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I don't think we've actually seen any screenshots of how the GV app was supposed to work.

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screenshots: http://www.iphonefreak.com/2009/03/gv-mobile-google-voice-ip...

Ah, thank you. I never saw those.

Those aren't actually screenshots of Google's Google Voice app, it's one of the third-party ones that has since been pulled.

I have GV Mobile Premium (the one pictured) and like it quite a bit. Having used it I find it hard to belive that someone would be confused between it and the native iPhone dialer - it's just not that similar.

Well a dialer is just a number pad from where you dial numbers, no? Maybe I misunderstand the objection then.

I assumed that due to Google's special access to the iPhone, the app was a little more far-reaching than the screnshots that are a sibling to you seem to show. That's also what Apple's announcement implied to me.

Google doesn't have special access to the iPhone, they use the same SDK as everyone else with the exception of a couple of private APIs though that's fairly common.

http://daringfireball.net/2008/12/private

Yeah, that's the 'special access' I was talking about. Apple tends to reject other people's apps for using private APIs, but they let Google get away with it.

Actually, only blatant violations are rejected. There are a lot of apps out there that make use of a few private API calls so I wouldn't say that Google has "special access."

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