Over the past few weeks, I've been getting lots of feedback (mostly negative ;-) about my decision to stop maintaining GV. The root of this decision is that I have essentially no interested in solving a problem that's already been solved (see also: reinventing the wheel). When I made up my mind, I saw the Google Voice application as being feature-complete and my app was merely redundant. Some users have taken the time to contact me and express why they still use GV instead of the official application. I have listened to all the feedback (even if I didn't reply to your email; I'm sorry to the few of you who I never followed up with. Shoot me another email and I'll reply this time.). My new idea for the GV project is as follows:
Essentially rewrite GV to just provide the features that users feel are missing from Google's version. Right now, this is essentially call-back calling. I would not be implementing visual voicemail, sms, settings, or anything else that Google's application already does.
What do you think about this? Is the Google application missing any other features?
Side note: I finally signed up for Twitter so that I could evaluate a certain Sense UI-based device that I recently got. As I write this, I still haven't used it, but that might change in the future. Feel free to start stalking me if you want :-)