While the Google Voice iPhone app may have been dumped from the Apple Store, it could make a comeback through a web-browser-only version, according to The New York Times.
The report says the service, which replaces a user’s phone devices with a single number, will be recreated as a service that offers everything the original application would have.
Web applications – applications that are run through an internet browser rather than a contained application on the iPhone software – can be “bookmarked” with an icon on the iPhone home screen, which looks exactly like a normal iPhone app.
The banning of Google Voice from the App Store brought controversy onto Apple, which blamed carrier AT&T as the reason for the app’s rejection. The matter is currently being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission.
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
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