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If Apple was so damned worried about Google controlling so much on their default user experience, maybe they should have thrown Yahoo a bone past just the Weath
by sachinag 17y ago
If Apple was so damned worried about Google controlling so much on their default user experience, maybe they should have thrown Yahoo a bone past just the Weather app. Or given AOL/Mapquest the Maps app. Apple has only itself to blame for giving Google that much control over the default apps, and thus, the default user experience.
- bigbang 17y agoThe stock app is also from Yahoo!(finance). Given that Maps/Youtube are from google,that puts yahoo/google at 2 default apps each.
- zhyder 17y agoThe default search in Safari is also through Google. And to be fair, Maps+Youtube are more significant apps than Weather+Stocks in terms of usage and complexity (should be easy to swap out the Yahoo sources for some other ones).
- Skeuomorph 17y agoTwo words: Push Email Yes, there's a preset icon for both Yahoo and Gmail but iPhone supported push email for Yahoo mail accounts, still does, and still does not have push email from Google. To get Yahoo push email working before the 3.0 with "push" for everyone, Apple allowed Yahoo's mail a feature only shared on the iPhone by the MobileMe subscription service.