Apple to allow VoIP on iPhone

It would be great to be able to use Skype on the iPhone – it sure will save a lot of people a considerable amount. I wonder, though, if it’s only going to be Skype and SightSpeed? Will other VOIP developers join the fray? I think so but what do you think?

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VoIP and iChat ... or skype!
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Cory: "He went on to say that Apple would not be opposed to VOIP apps that work on a Wi-Fi connection, which is welcome news to AT&T we are sure."

I don't see why AT&T would be happy about it at all. They make money on talk minutes, don't they?

Apple "allows" VoIP? LOL! Check out www.touchmods.net. Don't tell me you guys haven't heard about it.

Skype on the iPhone would be great!
I travel outside of the United States and skype on the iPhone would be amazing.

Um... no. Or, at least, not exactly.

The iPhone SDK Agreement (http://developer.apple.com/iphone/download.action?path=/iphone/iphone_sdk/iphone_sdk_agt_3308_ea0425a_copy.pdf, requires ADC login) specifically states in section 3.3.15 "Cellular Network:"

If an Application requires or will have access to the cellular network, then additionally such Application:
- Must comply with Apple's best practices and other guidelines on how Applications should
access and use the cellular network;
- Must not in Apple's reasonable judgment excessively use or unduly burden network
capacity or bandwidth;
- May not have Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) functionality.

At least as far as it would apply to non-WiFi connections, doesn't this pretty-much say, "No way will an app run VoIP over the [only approved AT&T Edge] cellular network" ?" I don't know about you but most of the time when I'm using my iPhone I'm not connected to WiFi and I suspect this is more the norm than the exception.

matthew, i think what TheRealKerni wanted to point out is something i also read somewhere:

I don't remember where, but i read that apple will NOT allow 3rd party apps to run in the background, or that only ONE can run at a time.

This would make it impossible to have more then 1 app open like with jailbreaks at the moment, where taskbarnotifier shows you that you have new icq unread messages, emails etc.

So multi-using differnt apps would be limited to apples apps itself and maybe 1 3rd party app at a time :/

that would suck big time.

matthew, i think what TheRealKerni wanted to point out is something i also read somewhere:

I don't remember where, but i read that apple will NOT allow 3rd party apps to run in the background, or that only ONE can run at a time.

This would make it impossible to have more then 1 app open like with jailbreaks at the moment, where taskbarnotifier shows you that you have new icq unread messages, emails etc.

So multi-using differnt apps would be limited to apples apps itself and maybe 1 3rd party app at a time :/

that would suck big time.

And what about VoIP on the iPod Touch? All you need is a Mic. attachment, and the appropriate software, and you'd have a phone.

what about our ipod touchs?? D: we want a mic addon!!