[FanIn80]

Interesting. I don't buy the whole "AT&T blocked it because of free SMS and cheaper long distance" argument. If they were truly concerned about that, they would have blocked Skype long ago.

Nah, I think this has more to do with Google's history of using unsupported 3rd party APIs in their iPhone apps, which is a violation of App Store policies.

Apple took a bit of a hit for approving the Google Mobile App when it was later discovered to use a 3rd party API for the voice-based search. If this new Google Voice uses that same illegal API, then it should be blocked. Every other developer has to follow the rules.

Again, if AT&T was really worried about long distance rates, they would have blocked the Skype app, which is far more established and far more dangerous than a brand new Google app that nobody knows about.

Edit: Looks like the official reason for denial is because the Google Voice app mimics native OS functionality, which is also against the app-store TOS.