Jay Yarrow wrote in an article for Business Insider that Google is paying Apple $100 million a year for the default search engine deal on the iPhone.
Another interesting fact about Yarrow’s article, is that he basically kills the rumor about Apple entering the search business with its own Search engine.
The Google phone is real, and will be called Nexus One! Google’s employees around the world have gotten their hands on the long rumored Google Phone. The phone will be manufactured by HTC, and designed by Google. This phone will be to Google what the iPhone is to Apple, since Google dictates every little bit of the phone from the hardware to the software. You will not see any carrier modified Nexus One phones, since it’s Googles will that the phone always comes unlocked. Here is what is knows of the phone at the moment:
The phone will be released in 1Q2010
A little correction to the post that I made yesterday, Google’s turn-by-turn navigation is first coming to Android 2.0, and after that possibly to the iPhone. Sorry about the mess-up in the last post :)
But what I didn’t write about in the last post, is that Google Maps Navigation will automatically jump when possible into street-view when arriving at the destination. This is what I call a nice feature!
This has nothing to do with mobile phones, but I still think this is worth seeing. The video shows Google’s unreleased operating system, the Chrome OS. Chrome OS was designed to work mainly on netbooks and tablets. Seems like a pretty decent OS so far.
Check out the video after the break!
UPDATE: Apparently this video is a fake. Sorry :)
Phil Schiller is Apple Senior Vice President of Worldwide Product Marketing, and he is the guy who pulled the plug on Google Voice.
Last time when this subject was on the table, it seemed that no-one was willing to take the blame. Guess we now know who’s responsible.
