Last month, FCC asked Apple, AT&T and Google several questions regarding rejection of Google Voice applications from Apple’s App Store. AT&T in its replay said the company had no role in any decision by Apple to not accept the Google Voice Application. Apple in its reply said that the company didn’t approve Google Voice App, but they are continuing to study the Google Voice app.
Google submitted a heavily redacted statement in response to FCC’s questions. However, today FCC and Google released unredacted statement:

“The primary points of contact between the two companies were Alan Eustace, Google Senior Vice President of Engineering & Research, and Phil Schiller, Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing. On July 7, Mr. Eustace and Mr. Schiller spoke over the phone. It was during this call that Mr. Schiller informed Mr. Eustace that Apple was rejecting the Google Voice application for the reasons described above in 2(a).”

The reasons described by Google are similar to what were presented by Apple in its reply to FCC. But the difference between the two companies is raised by the word “rejected”. Apple responded to the above statement:

Apple maintains that they are still studying Google Voice app and are in continuous contact with Google regarding this matter. However, Google hasn’t mentioned anything related to this in their letter to FCC and they plainly state that Apple rejected the Google Voice app.

Until, Google comes out and says that Apple is not studying the Voice app anymore or Apple is not in discussion with Google regarding this matter, we don’t understand what the fuss is about.