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Google Claims That Apple Did Reject Google Voice iPhone Application

Rodimus Prime said:
Well you want the real reason Opera was rejected. It is all about money. On Safari apple gets a slight cut for all the ad money made though good searches you do though the phone. Take for example firefox. That night little default Googe search in the top netted Mozilla 72 million off google searches alone a few years ago. Back when firefox when firefox was just in the 1.0 stage.

That is the real reason. It is not about consumers but about the money. Apple is what I call a chicken company and has little faith in its own products standing up in a head to head fight with the competition.
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Are you certain this is the case? You're saying that Google pays them for everytime someone searches in the iPhones Safari browser? Or is it just because they have it as their default search engine? If the latter is the case then it wouldn't really matter that there is a different browser either.

Also, could you provide a source for this? This is the first I'm hearing, I'd like to read more.
 
dejo said:
Too many options actually aren't always better for the consumer. See Barry Schwartz's "The Paradox of Choice: Why Less is More".
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Well... You say Too many... but currently we have NO choice. :) So it's still better.

Also, that Wiki article really talks about choice as relating to Happiness. Not really what I'm getting at. Also, I tend to disagree with that theory in that, naturally, a few superior choices will generally gather attention over the lesser ones and simplify things. Look at the OS and browser war currently. We bennefit from having the option of Mac, Windows, Linux, IE, Chrome, Opera, Firefox. It's not very stressful to many people but there are THOUSANDS of choices actually out there that I did not list. If you want it, they are there, but they don't effect most people 99% of the time.
 
ViViDboarder said:
Are you certain this is the case? You're saying that Google pays them for everytime someone searches in the iPhones Safari browser? Or is it just because they have it as their default search engine? If the latter is the case then it wouldn't really matter that there is a different browser either.

Also, could you provide a source for this? This is the first I'm hearing, I'd like to read more.
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It is based on somethign I read about Opera being banned from the App store and the 72 mil for firefox was something I read in the paper like 4-5 years ago so finding that old article will be difficult.

The give away on firefox is on firefox default home page http://www.google.com/firefox?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official and all those nice little google searches in the top right corner of the browsers runs threw that link above. Mozzila has a deal with google that they get part of the ad revenue off those searches.

That is how they are getting the money. It also is the only thing that would explain why Apple bans opera. Apple making that ban on Opera effectively kills other great browsers for the iphone from ever being made so you will never see Skyfire, or firefox for it (both of which are either made or in developement for Windows mobile and BB)
 
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