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Apple sidles up to Microsoft
APPLE IS IN DISCUSSIONS with Microsoft to make Bing the default search engine in its Iphones instead of Google.
According to Businessweek, sources close to the deal claim that Apple and Microsoft have been hammering out an uneasy alliance for several weeks. The Wall Street Journal has added more grist to the mill today by reporting that Apple will use Bing instead of Google for its default search and map technologies.
Apple and Goggle's relationship has soured recently as the two giants are increasingly cannibalising each other's market space. Not so long ago Google was the preferred search engine partner for the Iphone. However, one Nexus One Google smartphone running on Android and a couple of competitive acquisitions later, the bloom was off the relationship.
Apple and Google are now on the rebound, and Microsoft has entered the scene in the right place at the right time with Bing, while Apple realises that this deal could cut vital search information from Google's business, scenario which research analysts suggest could see Google's refined search algorithms lose their competitive edge because it wouldn't have data access to Apple's Iphone.
While speculation remains unanswered, it will be interesting to see in the coming days - or months - if Bing also gets the nod as the default search engine on Apple's expected tablet. µ
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Default search engine = petty politics.
As of now, Bing is inferior to Google's search engine. Tried Bing a few times, interesting random splash pictures, but not impressed.
For those with a poor memory, remember that Bing was ACQUIRED by MSFT. Previously, Microsoft was with its own MSN Search/Live Search, both which no one cared for.
Microsoft never innovates - it simply acquires and remains a mediocre tech company.
In fact, Apple and Google should work together. For example, have a shared app store and a portal of common cloud services. This will kill two birds with one stone:
1) Eliminate Microsoft from the mobile market - forever. Or at least render its share statistically insignificant.
2) Hasten the demise of Nokia/Symbian, and all the Ovi crap it hypes.
This is hilarious. You'd think if Apple was capable that they would have their own search engine - iSearch. ;-)
I wonder if this will really happen, bing on iphones. If I was apple I'd be taking google/bing data and putting my own front end on it. So the user doesn't really know it's not apple.
Dear Apple Forum Crawler,
hereby be informed that I disapprove of any move to Bing or strenghtening MS relationship. I could have bought a windows phone but I didn't. If Bing replaces Google search on the Iphone, then an Android phone will replace my Iphone. No way am I going to support a convicted monopolist with copycat products. Idiots.
Has everybody forgotten?!
Well last time I checked it was around mid to late nineties when Microsoft was sort of forced to save Apple from absolute financial demise. Monopoly and so on. Bill himself got Steve the leg up back into Apple as Steve had nothing to do after failing with NeXT OS. When Apple was "stable" again MS cut their shareholding stake just below majority.
your absolutly right, microsoft bailed them out so they wouldnt of had a monopoly, the only thing that has helped pull them out from under microsoft was the invention and success of the ipod and then the iphone.
But now the googles android OS has gained such popularity so quickily has made apple panic, and with good cause, the iphone has been losing popularity with the younger generation to the android phones, and apples exclusive deal with AT&T (at least in the US) has drastically hurt them in future customer base, AT&T has a rather poor network and an outrageous monthly price, where android phones are poping up with near 20 vendors on every know network imaginable, apples poor choice in not releasing their phone on other networks was a prelude to the demise of the iphone's popularity
Well last time I checked it was around mid to late nineties when Microsoft was sort of forced to save Apple from absolute financial demise. Monopoly and so on. Bill himself got Steve the leg up back into Apple as Steve had nothing to do after failing with NeXT OS. When Apple was "stable" again MS cut their shareholding stake just below majority.
Of course there must not be any ties between those two, at least for public perception. Again Monopoly and of course Marketing where no doubt Apple is Emperor of the World.
Still I can´t remember that M$ sold all shares back to the Fruity ones.
Therefore i believe that M$ is quite happy with Apples success, as money making doesn´t get any easier.
Of course only as long as the Chic IT doesn´t switch to anything crazy like Linux.
But that of course would mean the end of the world....
Yours,
Jörg A. Königseder
Well last time I checked it was around mid to late nineties when Microsoft was sort of forced to save Apple from absolute financial demise. Monopoly and so on. Bill himself got Steve the leg up back into Apple as Steve had nothing to do after failing with NeXT OS. When Apple was "stable" again MS cut their shareholding stake just below majority.
Of course there must not be any ties between those two, at least for public perception. Again Monopoly and of course Marketing where no doubt Apple is Emperor of the World.
Still I can´t remember that M$ sold all shares back to the Fruity ones.
Therefore i believe that M$ is quite happy with Apples success, as money making doesn´t get any easier.
Of course only as long as the Chic IT doesn´t switch to anything crazy like Linux.
But that of course would mean the end of the world....
Yours,
Jörg A. Königseder
You people forget that while there is this dispute between iPhone and Nexus between Apple and Google, there is an all out war in Apple vs. Microsoft.
I'd say that Saint Jobs would rather wear a suit than go to bed with M$. All those add videos you can find in youtube, with "I'm a Mac" and "I'm a PC" shows that. What if Apple switches to Bing, then M$ makes another add, showing that Apple uses M$ products. I'd be a huge let down to all those Apple fanboys.
And M$ has been trying to steal iPod thunder with Zune for years. Luckly It failed miserably.
Although recently Apple enabled W7 in boot camp. Times might be changing.
Bing stinks. I've tried it many times, and it never even comes close to the right returns, where Google works every single time. I'm giving up my iPhone if this occurs. I'll even pay the end-contract fee!
It's the end of the world as we know it,
and I feel fine.......
When I got to the end of this article I was thinking: "Huh? Wha? Where's the sarcastic remark about fanboys?!" ... then I looked back up and saw that the article was not writted by Nick Farrell.
IMHO, Jobs is (once again) acting like a vindictive control-freak, only focusing on trying to direct money away from Google. All his "I'm a Mac" ads positioned Apple as the polar opposite of Microsoft (and users who bought Macs did so just to be "different" from Windows users). Now on a whim he makes a unilateral decision and throws all Apple customers back into the arms of Microsoft (users of course have no rights in this regard). And these users do not want to support and give more money to Steve Ballmer and Co.
Microsoft is not stupid; they know full well where any Mac users who are disillusioned with Jobs delusional backflip to Bing are going to go. After all, Jobs himself laid out the Apple-Microsoft dichotomy in his "I'm a Mac/I'm a PC" ads. They "may" be going right back to Windows. And they won't be buying any more Iphones (and some may even be foolish enough to buy WinMo phones).
I hope that people just say "screw you" to both these greedy, proprietary companies, and use open source instead (Linux on PCs, Firefox or Chrome for a browser, Android on phones...because at least Google "does no evil").
If Apple uses BING, I will have to give up my IPHONE. I have tried Bing however, I am still loyal to GOOGLE. It is far superior. I understand BING is coping GOOGLE because they lack their own original thought. Google is still superior.
If I can change it back, I don't mind, otherwise apple can go F**K themselves, bing is crap.
How many will change the default? Will the default be changed on iPhones already sold? Not that I care much... iPhones and smartphones in general don't really flip my switch, so to speak.
This stuff is hilarious. I half expect to read stuff like this in People magazine. "Google spurned! Apple in midnight tryst with former rival!"