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Apple in talks with Microsoft to make Bing default search engine on the iPhone

14 points| anderzole | 16 years ago |networkworld.com | reply

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[+] lsb|16 years ago|reply
When I saw the Bing search results, and saw how much of a knockoff it was of Google's design, all I could think about was Arial being a poor knockoff of Helvetica, but at exactly the same widths, because Microsoft didn't want to pay licensing fees to Adobe.

Apple, back in the day, chose Helvetica.

[+] KC8ZKF|16 years ago|reply
They (Microsoft) didn't want to pay licensing fees to Linotype.
[+] ugh|16 years ago|reply
Nah, not even so evil. Plain old ignorance is enough. Microsoft just didn’t care a bit about typography. They were very much content with a knock off because they didn’t know any better.

(Today Microsoft cares quite a bit more about typography so everything’s not the same. They still use the wrong – straight – quotation marks, though. Annoys me without end.)

[+] cosmo7|16 years ago|reply
I wouldn't be surprised if Apple starts more collaborations with Microsoft. Remember how IBM was Apple's big enemy and then they got into bed with each other?
[+] kvs|16 years ago|reply
Hopefully they will make "default" search engine configureable.
[+] stilist|16 years ago|reply
Settings app → Safari → Search Engine
[+] axod|16 years ago|reply
Reasons I'd get rid of my iPhone and get a Google thingy:

  * They put flash on it.
  * They put *anything* from microsoft on it.
Guess the time may be coming to try Android.
[+] edd|16 years ago|reply
"They put anything from microsoft on it."

Dude, books and covers! Please judge products on merit not by who made the damn thing. You can rest assured apple will never let the "average user" experience suffer just to do a deal with another company.

[+] sosuke|16 years ago|reply
Flash is already on it's way to Android this year.

The iPhone will not be getting the Flash runtime but instead the new version of the Flash IDEs will be able to compile into native iPhone apps.

[+] roc|16 years ago|reply
There's no way Apple would allow any other company to do a Blackberry-style Bing takeover on their phone.

And if it's just changing the default, who honestly cares?

[+] olefoo|16 years ago|reply
Yeah, that would definitely take the bloom off the rose for me as well.

I'm already wishing I had some of the things Android has and Apple doesn't (interpreters FTW) but I would jump if they tried to steer me towards 'favored partners' for search.

[+] notirk|16 years ago|reply
An application just appeared on my Verizon Blackberry the other day with a link to Bing. I clicked it and it wanted to install an app. I'm happy with Google on my Blackberry.