Slashdot Mirror
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.'"
When will you Microsoft haters finally recognize that Apple does just as much sneaky crap as Microsoft... The difference is that Apple gets away with it.
So lets get this straight...
Apple will now force me to use BING, rather than Google?
Where are all of the EU Anti Trust whiners/MS haters now?
Are you on MS payroll?
clearly you didn't read my post at all Mr knee jerk.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
I know what you mean.
I hate this one person who works for subway (just a nasty personality). The thought of her preparing my food makes me ill.
I once went in and saw that she was working and walked right out.
That's how I feel about bing. (she would be microsoft)
But it may so happen that she is really good at work (in case of Bing) despite having nasty personality (she would be microsoft).
Sorry, but Firefox goes that extra mile because webpages might lead you somewhere else than they actually pretend to lead you ...
Oh please. As if that would ever happen.
Grow up.
Do you or your partner snore? - Visit www.snoring.com.au
Maybe I continue to use Google because I am wearing goggles . . .
But we don't make our decisions based purely on quality - for instance I buy fair trade coffee knowing full well it doesn't taste as good as Lavazza. So I guess people will continue to use Goggle because Microsoft have been raping the landscape for so long . . .
I make my decisions on quality - fairtrade coffee is horrible(massive generalisation poss)- I keep trying it but now I have the nice stuff - hmmmm yummy proper coffee and check out coffeegeek for proper coffee
On a long enough timeline. The survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, 1996
The only area where Google and Apple are seriously competing is in the smart phone market. And even there, the iPhone isn't even in the same league: you can get nice Android devices for a third of what an iPhone costs. Same goes for Apple's online offering, Mobile Me, compared to Google. The most-used apps on the iPhone (and probably any other smart phone) are Google's. There is nothing Apple offers that anybody outside its 1% sliver of the phone market cares about.
For Google, Android is a means to an end: to get people to do things on-line more of the time. That's why Google gives Android away. For Apple, the iPhone itself is the product. It's a conflict alright, but on very unequal terms, and terms that are quite unfavorable to Apple. The same kind of conflict is going to arise over Google Chrome vs Apple's tablet and ultralight offerings.
It's more like...
There's this single restaurant in town, and its employees treat me like shit because they know they are the single restaurant. Eventually, I just gave up eating out and started cooking at home.
Now they are opening a cafe. I don't think I'm going to give them my money; I keep going to the cafe that I know and like and where people have always treated me nicely.