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Awkward Google & Yahoo! Partnerships
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It is incredibly weird that two competing companies, that have never worked on any project together that I know of, together give iPhone a whole load of features. Google Maps and YouTube! vs. Yahoo Weather and Stock widgets and Push e-mail. Usually one company will partner with a device and will be mainly exclusive. How strange that both Yahoo! and Google are acting like Apple's buddies. This makes the rumors a few months back that .mac will get a Google overhaul even stranger.
What is going on here? Are Google and Yahoo! both trying to win Apple's love, or just gain as much time in the spotlight as each of them respectively can? Why would they partner with a device that their number one competitor, arch enemy even, has also partnered with?
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I'd rather be playing ultimate...
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Both are trying to find success and mindshare in their niches. Apple, because they made an extraordinary product that stands to redefine the market, is naturally redefining what once were one-dimensional relationships between manufacturers and providers.
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Because
a) competition is good
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b) partnering with Apple on the iPhone is good. The iPhone is the most high-profile electronic device since iPod, and getting your name on there is great, regardless of remaining content.
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The short and long-term business gains probably outweigh any 'strife' that may be caused by being on the same device as a competitor.
And besides, if Yahoo said 'no,' someone else would have done it and they would have lost out on the exposure. Same for Google. It was in the best interest of both of them to work on apps for the device. Heck, Apple may never have told either of them they would be sharing space on the iPhone. They may have individually just contacted each organization and communicated about their respective applications, never mentioning the other stuff to the other party.
Either way, not a big deal.
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I was reading somewhere else that mentioned that the Yahoo! - SBC-Cingular-no ATT connection might have had something to do with it. Perhaps part of apple's concessions to ATT.
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I'd rather be playing ultimate...
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