It was a big deal earlier in the summer when powerful Google Voice was rejected as an app for the powerful iPhone, and the big question was exactly why this monumental decision was made. Now we know more: In previously redacted material in FCC filings, Google says Apple — not AT&T — pulled the plug on Google Voice. Until this latest revelation, Apple had gotten away with claiming that it wasn't the bad guy. Google now gets to call its former lover Apple a big liar.

The FCC is still wrestling with how to sort out which apps you should be able use on which phones from which carrier, and who the hell gets to make those decisions. Pretty basic. Which makes this a major battle "with far-reaching implications for the U.S. telecommunications industry."

Many people (me included) thought that AT&T, exclusive purveyor of the iPhone, had nixed Google Voice out of fright that it would make even more inroads into the old-school phone business. Turns out that Apple did made the call out of a similar mean-spiritedness.