We have seen iPhone store banning applications in past for just no reason, but this time the victim is giant Google voice applications. This decision seems more of an influence of AT&T.

So is AT&T afraid of Google voice applications? The answer is yes, because Google voice lets the user do much stuff for free that AT&T charges like free calls and sms in USA. Some of the iPhone applications being banned from the app store are GV mobile, GV dialer and VoiceCentral.

Google has the official Google voice application only for Blackberry and Android and when asked for the iPhone, they have now admitted that iPhone said “No” to them.

A question arises here, why iPhone banned Google voice applications? The answer may be because these applications replicate the services iPhone and AT&T provides.

But for application developers it’s not at all fair on the part of iPhone to pull their applications off the App. Store. Sean Kovacs has reported on his blog, “Richard Chipman from Apple just called – he told me they’re removing GV Mobile from the App Store due to it duplicating features that the iPhone comes with (Dialer, SMS, etc).”

This will affect the developers and they will surely go away from iPhone, which is serious for iPhone. So, iPhone and AT&T needs to think again on their decisions.

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