{"id":201909,"date":"2010-01-20T01:30:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T06:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5452448"},"modified":"2010-01-20T01:30:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T06:30:20","slug":"apple-microsoft-in-cahoots-bing-to-replace-google-as-default-iphone-search-engine-rumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/201909","title":{"rendered":"Apple, Microsoft in Cahoots: Bing to Replace Google as Default iPhone Search Engine? [Rumor]"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to BusinessWeek, Apple and Microsoft may be in talks to defenestrate Google as the iPhone’s default search engine, in favor of Bing. This Apple-Google battle for the mobile throne is getting heated<\/em>.<\/p>\n

This is all coming from “two people familiar with the matter,” so, you know, eat a bowl of salt or whatever, but it sort of makes sense in a Machiavellian kind of way. Windows Mobile 7 notwithstanding, Apple’s competition in the mobile arena isn’t Microsoft, but Google, and so it’s not really that outlandish, especially considering that Bing isn’t necessarily a worse search engine than Google. Apple avoids throwing unnecessary support to Google (although the iPhone will still feature Google Maps, YouTube, and Gmail) while Microsoft gains a huge market for Bing. Everybody wins, except Google, who only mostly wins.<\/p>\n

What do you guys think? If Bing was the default search engine on your phone, would you go through the necessary steps to change it to Google? I have a feeling a lot of people might just not care. [BusinessWeek<\/a>]<\/p>\n



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According to BusinessWeek, Apple and Microsoft may be in talks to defenestrate Google as the iPhone’s default search engine, in favor of Bing. This Apple-Google battle for the mobile throne is getting heated. This is all coming from “two people familiar with the matter,” so, you know, eat a bowl of salt or whatever, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1551,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1551"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}