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Bing To Become Default iPhone Search?
snydeq writes "BusinessWeek reports ongoing talks between Apple and Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine for the iPhone. The discussions reflect an accelerating rivalry between Apple and Google, one that some believe will be the most important rivalry in tech in the years to come. 'Apple and Google know the other is their primary enemy,' says one person familiar with Apple's thinking. 'Microsoft is now a pawn in that battle.'"
good insight
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Haw! MS is the ugly fat chick in the room. A company would have to be desperate to be with her. Microsoft is synonymous with "cheap".
Apple and Microsoft working together - mass hysteria!
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But how do you feel about delicious pizza with some mountain dew?
to say nothing of her transmittable diseases....
>a Jobs search engine.
It would be like Google, but the only button would be the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
Don't take life so seriously. No one makes it out alive.
"He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. " -- John Calvin, commenting on Genesis 1
There would be no buttons. No buttons at all.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
Getting an iPhone is like walking into a cool, refreshing pond, which just happens to be full of leeches. You'll be comfortable as long as your body can generate blood fast enough.
Entomologically speaking, the spider is not a bug, it's a feature.
But it may so happen that she is really good at work (in case of Bing) despite having nasty personality (she would be microsoft).
The analogy is false; it's not about one employee at a business, it's about a business and a monopoly.
In the restaurant analogy, we're talking about a restaurant (Microsoft) that has a monopoly in your town, there's no other. Most of the employees are nasty to you and their food is generally bad. Now they have one desert on the menu that's good, the apple cobbler (search engine). WIth that, they are actually trying to drive the nice, new cafe around the corner (Google) out of business as well. Does it make sense to leave your nice neighborhood cafe and start going to this restaurant for your deserts? I don't think so. You know what's going to happen: after they've driven the cafe out of business, they are going to revert to their old ways, and even their apple cobbler is going to go bad.
(Of course, I don't think Bing is actually very good.)
http://www.citizenarcane.com/files/2005_Jan_14/kkk_adopt_a_highway_2.jpg
I'm sorry, this is an unacceptable Slashdot analogy.
The use (driving) of a car does not make this a car analogy. Please try again.
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What entire industry has Microsoft hindered, exactly? The IT industry, where they've delivered software and service as a package deal at a level that has made them ubiquitous based on their merits? The software development industry that uses COM and descendants (and DDE before it, even) to implement technologies in self-organizing ways that are occasionally just shy of magical? The tech industry in general, where Microsoft has often driven innovation through both positive (advanced APIs to cover difficult low-level details without smothering the gains they provide) and negative (favouring features over raw performance) drivers?
Open Source is not an industry. It's an approach to a problem. Microsoft has hindered open source, there's very little doubt about that, but it's far from the only effect they've had on software development.