Well this is interesting — apparently a company called Ifbyphone has announced that they will be releasinga “Voice Broadcast” app through the iPhone’s App Store in June. The application will apparently let you “transmit” voice messages to multiple recipients, like sending a voice memo out to multiple people at a time.  

The actual app isn’t very impressive — apparently a subscription will be required to use the service, and who knows how it works — but the repercussions for the App Store might be interesting. What if someone releases a VOIP app through Apple’s official store? What would AT&T have to say about that?

We still, even a week before WWDC, have no real idea exactly how the store is going to work and how a company or private developer will be able to get their programs on Apple’s official listing, but it’s conceivable that if a developer drops functionality that intersects with Apple or AT&T’s profitability we could have a problem here. We’ll have to watch and see if Ifbyphone’s app shows up with all the functionality they claim.