Bing As Default Search Engine On iPhone 4G; Too Bad For Apple

Bing On iPhone

Quite a while ago there was a rumor that Bing would be the default search on the iPhone. But it remained at the rumor level and nothing practical or official came to face the world. Now we have another round of the same rumor straight from Apple. Micheal Arrington of TechCrunch has been in talks with some senior Apple official who claims to have been briefed on the matter. According to him, Apple will replace Google with Bing on the iPhone 4G. Obviously, we’d still be able to open Google.com and search on google what we want but the default search engine matters a lot.

If Apple is going to do something like that, this would be in least customer interest. Why favor an ultimate rival against the most recent smaller one? Haven’t Microsoft been deceiving Apple at times?During most of his life time Steve Jobs has been in fights with Microsoft.

Also, the fact that Bing isn’t mature yet. Surely, I like the bing video search than Google’s but still a homogeneous web search provided by Google has no match at all. One of the big reasons I don’t use Internet Explorer and hardly use web on public computers having Internet Explorer is that it has bing as the default search engine. Obviously,  it matters a lot for most of the customers.

Another fact, that might hurt Apple is that Google is one of the reasons of iPhone’s success. Either it be youtube app, maps or search, most popular stuff is powered by Google. Will it all be replaced by Microsoft? Again, none of the Microsoft services are mature yet. There’s no youtube from Microsoft and no one would like Bing maps.

What do you guys think. How’d you feel when you would be taken again and again to Bing and you’d manually have to go to Google.com to find what you want? Plain annoying!

[TechCrunch]