According to [1], it was because the costs of connecting are too high. Since Google voice is a free service, I (at least) see no issue with it; you get what you pay for.<p>However, saying that Apple never did that while Google did makes no sense; Apple isn't a service provider, while Google is, in this case. It makes just as much sense to say that Google never required their devices to be jailbroken to be user-controllable, while Apple did - or that Google never said that jailbreaking was illegal, while Apple did.<p>[1] <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/66661-pressure-on-google-over-blocked-calls" rel="nofollow">http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/66661-pressure-on...</a>