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Microsoft's Bing to Replace Google As Default Search Engine on iPhone?
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Radicals don't think different. They follow.
If Steve Jobs tells everyone that Bing is good, fanboys will embrace it.
That's how pathetic it can get.
If Steve Jobs tells everyone that Bing is good, fanboys will embrace it.
That's how pathetic it can get.
Sounds like a diversionary tactic to distract from whatever will be bundled with the iPad - an apple search engine with voice recognition one hopes....
Note I live in New Zealand
Dude or Girl it clearly says BETA, what do you expect with a beta?? Loose beta and then will have a valid debate.
Oh please no.....Apple customers do not want anything to do with Microsoft. That is why they are Apple customers in the first place!
If they do change the default search engine, I am sure that will be the first thing people will change just like it is with IE.
Business stand point, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
If they do change the default search engine, I am sure that will be the first thing people will change just like it is with IE.
Business stand point, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
I have no problems with Bing and frankly I can't blame apple. Google clearly want to kill the iphone so why use your biggest competitor and make them money.
Maps will be next
and apple will do it better- that I have no doubt.
Google search isn't all its cracked up to be. A search engine is a search engine is a search engine and MS can do it just as well as Google. Forget your prejudce.
Interesting an apple MS alliance to take on the mighty too big for its own sake Google. Bring it on!!
Google loves beta versions most of it's half baked products are beta- an excuse for when it doesn't work.The other half are dropped.
To me Google uses a spray can to paint with whereas apple uses a fine fine artists brush. It may not cover so much as the spray can but it's so much more refined. Less is more.
Sorry most apple customers no nothing of the history between MS and apple. They choose apple because it works.
Maps will be next
and apple will do it better- that I have no doubt.
Google search isn't all its cracked up to be. A search engine is a search engine is a search engine and MS can do it just as well as Google. Forget your prejudce.
Interesting an apple MS alliance to take on the mighty too big for its own sake Google. Bring it on!!
Google loves beta versions most of it's half baked products are beta- an excuse for when it doesn't work.The other half are dropped.
To me Google uses a spray can to paint with whereas apple uses a fine fine artists brush. It may not cover so much as the spray can but it's so much more refined. Less is more.
Sorry most apple customers no nothing of the history between MS and apple. They choose apple because it works.
If by pretty soon you mean late 2010, maybe even 2011, then yes. I'm not sure what MicroSloth has done in recent years regarding the mobile arena to make anyone think that Windows Mobile 7 will be a larger threat than Google. Especially since Android is already a tangible product and sure to only improve in time.
Why are so many ppl opposed to this? As long as Apple gives us the option to change it, I'm all for it.
It's just pure politics, nothing more. Buisness is one huge battefield of politics and sometimes you have to turn to your worst enemy to make him or her (this time it's Microsoft) your friend.
Could you imagine what possible cooperation between Apple and Microsoft would bring about?
I'm all open to new possibilities and new ways of thinking. Whatever it means.
It's just pure politics, nothing more. Buisness is one huge battefield of politics and sometimes you have to turn to your worst enemy to make him or her (this time it's Microsoft) your friend.
Could you imagine what possible cooperation between Apple and Microsoft would bring about?
I'm all open to new possibilities and new ways of thinking. Whatever it means.
What the hell?! I dont want Bing on my phone....have you TRIED searching with it? They only got that working a month or so back!
Why get a third rate search engine when you've already got the best (hands down, cant be beaten)?!?!?!?
Poor move on Apple's part. They better have an option to set which search engine you want to use (Like desktop safari and firefox have).
Have Apple not figured out that Mac users (who are obviously a large percentage of iPhone owners) HATE Microsoft and everything it stands for! I cant believe Steve would be happy about this...surely his relationship with Eric Schmidt is MUCH better than with Steve Bald-Mer.
I'd sooner be a pirate than join the navy! (hehe)
Why get a third rate search engine when you've already got the best (hands down, cant be beaten)?!?!?!?
Poor move on Apple's part. They better have an option to set which search engine you want to use (Like desktop safari and firefox have).
Have Apple not figured out that Mac users (who are obviously a large percentage of iPhone owners) HATE Microsoft and everything it stands for! I cant believe Steve would be happy about this...surely his relationship with Eric Schmidt is MUCH better than with Steve Bald-Mer.
I'd sooner be a pirate than join the navy! (hehe)
Google's decision to launch its own phone is silly and sure
to anger Apple and is going to fail multiple times. Although I use google almost exclusively for searching , Bing is a very capable search engine as well. I do not see much loss of the switch for iPhone users.
to anger Apple and is going to fail multiple times. Although I use google almost exclusively for searching , Bing is a very capable search engine as well. I do not see much loss of the switch for iPhone users.
To everyone saying this, or similar. Of course you'll have the option, I mean you have the option to use yahoo now. Whether or not you chose to, is another matter.
Search on the iPhone is, in my opinion, irrelevant. I never use it because I have a ton of specialized apps (and bookmarked pages that are now icons on my phone) that are designed to quickly retrieve the information I want.
Besides, the Google app does Google search, even if Apple changed the default search engine on Safari for iPhone.
Besides, the Google app does Google search, even if Apple changed the default search engine on Safari for iPhone.
Windows Mobile is not only a tangible product, it also has tangible market share, unlike Android, which is all hype and no confirmed sales. While Microsoft doesn't have the skills to make it a top contender, Windows Mobile can always bank on a generic marketshare of 5 - 10 % just because it's a Windows branded product. Android still has to prove that it can win customers' hearts.
Google is the enemy just as Microsoft was in the past.
You know the old saying
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
It seems Steve got stuffed twice. First by Bill and this time by Eric Schmidt
The bird's eye view on Bing's desktop maps is amazing. Everyone who hasn't seen it should check it out.
The Bing Mobile app and its predecessor on Windows Mobile had voice search way before the iPhone, and it's also very quick to find anything manually with it due to its predefined categories.
The Bing website is okay. I'm starting to retry it and some of the other search engines simply to see what results Google doesn't show. However, it's not mobile optimized.
Apple doesn't hate Microsoft like the fanboys do. Apple needed Exchange to be taken seriously in the business world. It's also likely that Apple would chose Silverlight over Flash if they had to.
If this is true, this would be the WORST decision ever by Apple!
Google is the best... but I can understand not wanting to share info with the enemy... but MS? Bing? Hello! They are even worse! And Bing? All I can think about is Ballmer saying "I Bing, I Bing, I Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing" at the very lame CES Keynote.
Why not Yahoo? At least Yahoo does not have a phone and would love to one-up Google. That would be a safe and sane alternative to Google.
I really hope this is just rumor mill and holds no truth. I think I would spontaneously barf if Balmer joined Steve on stage next week!
Google is the best... but I can understand not wanting to share info with the enemy... but MS? Bing? Hello! They are even worse! And Bing? All I can think about is Ballmer saying "I Bing, I Bing, I Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing" at the very lame CES Keynote.
Why not Yahoo? At least Yahoo does not have a phone and would love to one-up Google. That would be a safe and sane alternative to Google.
I really hope this is just rumor mill and holds no truth. I think I would spontaneously barf if Balmer joined Steve on stage next week!
If true, Hell has officially frozen over...
Yeah I seen the devil doing a figure 8!