Things like this can be viewed as the bad side of having an open source platform. We all know Google’s main source of income and the reason they make any product is focused on their ad revenues. Google Search is their main source of this income and it will be replaced on Google’s own OS by one of its main competitors, Yahoo Search on the Motorola Backflip. Some speculate they their may be some disagreement between Google and Motorola but this is purely AT&T trying to keep Apple happy.
The home screen widget has been replaced by a Yahoo version, the browser even performs Yahoo searches. Virtually every search you can perform will utilize Yahoo for the results, this is the first Android device with Yahoo as the main search engine. One thing to keep in mind is MotoBlur is a custom UI and is not a Google Experience device. Therefore, it can be customized to the carriers content. Maybe this trend will continue throughout AT&T’s Android devices since there is no Google Experience phone on the horizon.
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Now when they talk about default search are they just meaning the browser or is this a search widget and the web search component of the "desktop" search?
Anyway its starting to look like Jobs doesn't have an answer to Android. The iPhone fanboys love to talk about the mystical iPhone 4.0 that they're so sure Apple has up its sleeve. But even if he does it can't keep pace with Android. They have to first get ahead and then second stay ahead of HTC, Motorola and the others once they release. I think Steve was planning to leave the iPhone like the iPod and move off to the iPad as the next big thing where no one would pay attention to the iPhone being passed up by Android. But the iPad may not get it done. I'm really starting to believe this is the reason the iPhone didn't come to Verizon when I even had people that worked for V telling me it was. They really can't afford to have a release like that and not have it trump any and all Android releases to date or have a Nexus One Verizon version or HTC Bravo come immediately behind it and steal the thunder.
Now when they talk about default search are they just meaning the browser or is this a search widget and the web search component of the "desktop" search?
Anyway its starting to look like Jobs doesn't have an answer to Android. The iPhone fanboys love to talk about the mystical iPhone 4.0 that they're so sure Apple has up its sleeve. But even if he does it can't keep pace with Android. They have to first get ahead and then second stay ahead of HTC, Motorola and the others once they release. I think Steve was planning to leave the iPhone like the iPod and move off to the iPad as the next big thing where no one would pay attention to the iPhone being passed up by Android. But the iPad may not get it done. I'm really starting to believe this is the reason the iPhone didn't come to Verizon when I even had people that worked for V telling me it was. They really can't afford to have a release like that and not have it trump any and all Android releases to date or have a Nexus One Verizon version or HTC Bravo come immediately behind it and steal the thunder.
iphone will never top Android, the maxi-pad is a joke.
the ONLY thing that save the iphone is apps, and clever marketing.
apple NEVER EVER had plans to put apps on the iphone. It was the jailbreaking and Develop community that made them change their minds. If it wasnt for the throves of jailbroken apps that was out there, iphone would have been jsut another apple product.
But ill give it Jobs hes smart. and 1 year later low and behold apple will start to sell apps for the iphone in the app store.
The sole decison that made the iphone what it is today. But its single flaw is the close mindedness offf apple and jobs trying to control EVERY aspect of the device, thats why it will be left in the dust by android.
I toltally agree with you, they way Jobs was talking about ipad like it was the it thing to an all but disapointed press when all the saw was a big itouch. FAIL!!!!!
4.0 is a joke IMO, they need to revamp their entire OS to even stand a SLIM chance to stay relevant to android and come out with a whole new iphone all together.
I have friends who work for VZ as well, who said they where getting the iphone, and that deal failed as well.
but yeah couldnt agree with you more.