After Google's widespread public press announcement of their forthcoming voice search application for the iPhone and iPhone 3G, slated to arrive at the Apple App Store "as early as Friday" November 14, tech journos started to notice come Saturday morning that no such search application had yet arrived at the App Store. Google insiders told Tech Crunch they had received a thumbs up from Apple for a Friday launch for the voice search application, leading to the press push behind the launch.

But in lieu of direct contact with Apple concerning the app, Google received an update from the standard iPhone developer tool that the application was still "in review;" at this time the voice search app is slated to go live on Monday. Given Apple's reputation for treating its development partners poorly, and the fact that Google somewhat graciously chose to launch its voice search app on the iPhone via the Apple App Store instead of on the T-Mobile G1 via its own Android App Store, we imagine the search giant might be a wee bit miffed at a certain fruity-named company right about now.

[Thanks, Sean!]

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