Updates to our Google Voice apps

Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by stock_toaster on Monday January 23, 2017 @08:46PM (#13468131)

Apple wanted to open it up, supposedly, but I read somewhere that they were apparently blocked by lawsuits with VirnetX (an apparent NPE/patent-troll), ongoing since 2010.

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by eridius on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:39AM (#13469523)

You may be thinking of FaceTime. Apple was going to open that, but a successful lawsuit by a patent troll (I think it was VirnetX) put a stop to that, because Apple had to change FaceTime to proxy through their own servers, which meant that opening it up wouldn't do any good.

That said, VirnetX has also sued Apple about iMessage, so it's possible there's something to what you've said (but I've never heard it said before that Apple was going to open up iMessage).

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Re:Updates to our Google Voice apps by kobayashi on Monday January 23, 2017 @11:23PM (#13468785)

If you can find the source, I'd love to read it.

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