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Best. Comment. Ever. ? You Bet

TechCrunch spun a comment to a posting about AT&T… I mean Apple pulling Google Voice applications off the iPhone store. Whoever ‘JÂ’ is an extremely whitty guy. Come to think of it, this speech could be spun in any number of different ways’…

image This is, without a doubt, the best comment ever on TechCrunch. Left by ‘JÂ’ on MG’s latest iPhone rant about the Google Voice debacle. Beautiful.

AT&T: You want answers?

TechCrunch: We think we’re entitled to them.

AT&T: You want answers?!

TechCrunch: We want Google Voice on our iPhones.

AT&T: You can’t handle the iPhone with Google Voice!

Son, we operate on network that has walls. And those walls have to be guarded by carriers with restrictions. Who’s gonna do it? You? You, Verizon Wireless? We have a greater responsibility than you can possibly fathom. You weep for Google Voice and you curse AT&T. You have that luxury. You have the luxury of not knowing what we know: That pulling Google Voice, while tragic, probably saved the network. And our existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves the network.

You don’t want the Google Voice on your iPhone. Because deep down, in places you don’t talk about at TechCrunch50, you want us protecting the network. You need us protecting that network. We use words like rate limiting, application approval and restrictionsÂ…we use these words as the backbone to a life spent defending something. You use them as a punchline.

We have neither the time nor the inclination to explain ourselves to a blog who writes and profits under the blanket of the very network that we provide, then questions the manner in which we provide it. We’d prefer you just said thank you and went on your way. Otherwise, we suggest you pick up a router and build your own network. Either way, We don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.

TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?

AT&T: We did the job you sent us to do.

TechCrunch: Did you order Google Voice taken down?

AT&T: You’re goddamn right we did.

Google Apps gets iPhone Support; to Hell with PocketPC-based Phones

Nice new note from Google Apps blog today:

If you have an iPhone (or an iPod Touch), Google Apps is now available with a streamlined mobile interface, where you can easily bookmark a single web address and seamlessly switch between applications.

How to access what’s new:
Bookmark http://www.google.com/m/a/your-domain.com from your iPhone’s browser. Be sure to replace ‘your-domain.com’ with your actual domain name.

Well, that’s awfully nice for the iPhone folks but what about us Windows Mobile (aka PocketPC, etc) users? We’ve got a nice, capable browser built into our phones but no, no loving from Google! Going to the page shown above with my T-Mobile Wing (yes I sbustituted your-domain.com with my real domain name that has Google Apps setup) yields nothing more than an empty, white page.

Sigh… Perhaps someday…