Google is shutting down the Infinite SMS App. The Infinite SMS app, which cost US$0.99 and let users send unlimited text messages from an iPod or iPhone, quickly became one of the 10 most-downloaded apps in the iPhone Store after its release last month.
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Google said it would continue to offer free SMS through Google Talk, but it will block Infinite SMS and other non-Google clients that use the service to deliver text messages starting on Wednesday.
“Infinite SMS is a third party app that has been using Google technology to provide free SMS to users, while we were paying for the cost of the text messages,” a Google spokesman said via e-mail.
Infinite SMS was popular with iPod touch users who wanted to send text messages as if they had iPhones, according to Inner Fence.
