Apple, the lean mean app-rejecting machine, is at it again. Just yesterday we published an article about GV Mobile, an unofficial (but great) Google Voice iPhone app by Sean Kovacs, being kicked out of the App Store (after receiving approval from Phil Schiler himself). Now, a Google representative has stated in an interview with Tech Crunch that an official Google Voice iPhone app was rejected from the App Store six weeks ago. The app was denied because it offers free text messaging, gives competitive rates on international calls, and threatens the necessity of multiple phone numbers. Ah, why would Apple care, you ask? They wouldn’t…AT&T would. There is no doubt in my mind that this app was denied because of AT&T’s influence on Apple. Also, this explains why Sean Kovacs’ unofficial app got kicked out…if Google themselves were denied, he should be too. This is yet another bout in the developer vs. Apple battle, and surprise surprise: Apple wins again. Recently, Apple denied another Google iPhone application, called Google Latitude (an app which allows you to see where you’re friends are on a Map, just like Loopt). Google, however, came right back at Apple by releasing a Google Latitude web app ( http://www.google.com/latitude/intro.html ).  Google plans to do the same for Google Voice

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Apple Rejected Official Google Voice iPhone App Six Weeks Ago

Filed under: Cult of Mac , Odds and ends , Apple , Apple History A few months ago I brought my family’s old Macintosh SE/30 to my home office. While it booted fine a few years ago , it looks like mine has developed SimasiMac , which means a trip inside the machine to replace a few capacitors (I hope). Along with the SE/30 I brought a Powerbook 540c , one of the more capable (and last) of the smaller, 68LC040-based laptops from Apple. The 500 series had numerous firsts, like a trackpad and sleep mode when you shut the lid, plus you could upgrade the CPU to a PowerPC chip. Currently our 540c doesn’t have much software on it, as we used Zip disks to store many of the educational programs my little brothers used in the 90′s. It does, however, have a copy of SoftPC , and Windows 95 installed on it. Not two months ago my son sat here in the office and had a ball playing with Paint (why isn’t there something like this pre-installed on Macs, hm?) and Minesweeper. He’s playing with the calculator in the picture. I find it a little sad that we had to resort to Windows for casual fun, but I guess that’s why Macs were never considered ” toy computers ” (that’s sarcasm for those who missed the reference). When the kids do play classic Mac OS games, I let them use my 500 MHz G3 iBook (the first of the “icebooks”), which not only runs Mac OS X and Mac OS 9, but has a version of TuxPaint for OS X , which I highly recommend. It should be noted that quite a few older Mac educational games won’t run on the iBook. Often it’s an issue with older versions of QuickTime expected by the program, or some funky extension or Director call that just won’t work after OS 8.5 (remember Sherlock?)

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How old is your oldest working Mac?