When I wrote last week that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) and AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) were strong-arming Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) over its new Google Voice application for Apple's iPhone, it was hard to see how Apple could not approve a program by one of its long-time partners and then starting yanking off related programs from its App Store that had been there a while and were being downloaded and used perfectly by customers of its iPhone product. Someone was being evil here.

Now that FCC is getting involved -- it wants to know why Apple is blocking the use of the Google Voice -- will Apple have to uncover just why it's exerting so much muscular control about what types of programs it can offer on its App Store for the millions of iPhone owners to have access to? You see, when iPhone owners bought their beloved phone, they really did not own it at all. It will only work on one wireless carrier (AT&T), and only Apple has control over what applications go on its App Store for iPhone customers to download and use.

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