One of my favorite iPhone development teams, innerfence, which developed the credit care processing iPhone application I blogged about back in December 2008 has done it again - well almost.innerfence developed an iPhone application that gave users unlimited free SMS texting by accessing a free Google SMS service, which was originaly intended for its Google Talk instant messaging service.
The iPhone application, called Infinit SMS, was so popular that it quickly overwhelmed Google's beta SMS service driving Google to cut off access to its free SMS service to all thrid-party applications.
The guys a innerfence, Derek Del Conte and Ryan Johnson, explain the circumstances of Google's actions as "Their given reason for the block isn't abuse or wrongdoing; it's that we brought too many users (and thus too much cost) to an experimental service."
Derek and Ryan have developed other really useful applications such as a International Rates, which gives you the rates AT&T charges for international calls, and Excess Baggage which gives you the rates each Airline charges for excess baggage. innerfence is focus on applicaitons that are actually useful. I hope they continue to develop more of these awesome applications. (thanks to Slashdot for the heads up on this one).
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