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	Main Forum - Off Topic News Posts - Search - Next What the hell is the point of google voice futurebot 12/06/09, 08:25 0 I just got an invite yesterday, and after a few hours of fiddling around with it realized that any outbound calls you route through GV show up in the recipient's caller ID as the phone number of the device you called with. So in other words, no one has any incentive to use your GV number since they always see your device-specific number, which means that all of the clever bells and whistles of GV (call routing, transcription, recording ETC.) are entirely useless since everyone will always bypass them. What, I ask, is the point Next Reply - Reply With Quote What the hell is the point of google voice (futurebot) 12/06/09, 08:25 RE: What the hell is the point of google voice (Charon) 12/06/09, 13:55 RE: What the hell is the point of google voice (futurebot) 12/07/09, 08:39 RE: What the hell is the point of google voice (Charon) 12/07/09, 09:43 The point is that every God damn thing Google does causes fucking money to raiNT (Plinko) 12/06/09, 14:12 Tracking information for statistics purposes. -nt- (Billie_Joe_Buttfuck) 12/06/09, 15:00 Providing a service through the internet (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:34 Maintaining the livelihood of Google's employees through economic transactions (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:34 taking over the world (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:35 enhancing personal productivity (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:35 promoting new and innovative uses of telecommunications technologies (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:36 facilitating new mediums of advertising (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:37 the most banal and obvious comment I could possibly make about this (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:38 allowing me to exploit this new technology in some kind of predictably wacky way (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:39 cocks (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:39 what is the point of anything look at me i'm some kind of hilarious existentiali (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:40 here is a vaguely relevant video we all saw on Wonkette (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:41 look at me I'm some other asshole chiming in on the same joke (asshole) 12/06/09 (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:42 some other variation on NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION i haven't thought of (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:45 You should totally go have a cup of joe. -nt- (Billie_Joe_Buttfuck) 12/06/09, 17:02 Now that's what I call a meltdown! n/t (FMonk) 12/06/09, 19:28 Wow, you really are from the future. - nt (Lurchi) 12/07/09, 10:51 You can fix that number thing (n/t) (Derrida) 12/06/09, 15:49 are you referring to the workaround where you have to type an elaborate prefix (futurebot) 12/06/09, 15:58 RE: are you referring to the workaround where you have to type an elaborate pref (Derrida) 12/06/09, 19:19 I suspect you saw someone using the ridiculous workaround (futurebot) 12/07/09, 08:35 do you have an extra invite? does anyone? (Azmo23) 12/06/09, 20:01 They haven't given me any invites yet, sorry. (futurebot) 12/07/09, 08:36 i use it when i have to give my number to businesses (yrmom) 12/06/09, 20:48 The most annoying thing is that they won't let you change your number. (Persephone S. Tight) 12/07/09, 00:26 I can totally change my number. (futurebot) 12/07/09, 08:36 !!! (Persephone S. Tight) 12/09/09, 04:31
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