“On Thursday, Microsoft released a software developer kit designed to make it easier for iPhone developers to build access to Bing into their applications. Using the SDK, a developer can build an iPhone application that searches Bing for Web information, images, videos, news and phonebook results,” Nancy Gohring reports for IDG News Service.
“Google is the default search engine in the iPhone’s Safari browser, and users can decide to switch that to Yahoo. Otherwise, if iPhone users want to access Bing today they have to type in the URL,” Gohring reports.
“The SDK will also let developers incorporate Bing searches into applications for Macintosh computers,” Gohring reports.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Edward W.” for the heads up.]
I’ll get right on that!
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First application that requires any M$ software installation is instant history.
Actually, I use an iPod touch app which uses bing maps. They seem to work much better than google, are faster, and cache… so I don’t need to be near a wifi spot to see the map.
Oh! Gosh! One more Ballmer idea! Terrible!
Seems like M$ is beginning to understand you need to play nice with other people. Much like Apple with its exchange server support. I trust Apple will learn from the past and accept they are part of a bigger ecosystem.
CLUELESS!!! Interestingly enough, if you go to Bing.com (and why would you), and do a search for “SDK”, the fourth hit on the page was for the iPhone SDK. Bing’s SDK was nowhere to be found…. of course, one would normally not search for just “SDK”, but I still found it interesting.
I look forward to the day when Mac OS is on 50-60% all computing hardware, and MSFT is just one regular software shop like other app makers trying to sell software on Macs.
You think with all their resource, they could’ve build a Bing app by now. But then MS probably think it’ll never make it through the App Store approval process because it’ll be crap.
Was Steve Ballmer’s first sentence as a child, “Me too”?
Funny, I specifically *AVOID* any web search that uses the MS search engine. I think there had better be a warning in the app description that they’re using MS’s bing, or else I’m gonna be a very annoyed customer.
Who cares?
I’m surprised Microsoft isn’t paying them upfront to put Bingo in their Apps!
B-I-N-G-O!
I don’t think Microsoft thinks much about names as they was given us such comedy gems as Zune, Vista, ME, Bing, XBox, Live, BOB, and the list goes on from their.
Zune and Bing are my favorites by far there is a lot of Comedy gold in them two words.
Did you just Bing Ballmer’s Zune?
Only a Bing Does the Zune road.
Wow Bing left Zune marks all the way across the Redmond Lobby!
Bing Bing Zune Zune the Cash goes down the drain!
How many Bings does it take to clean Zune out of the Carpet? It’s not worth the effort Ballmer will leave more Zune marks after he hears this joke!
Bada Bing Bada Zune!
Bing f****ng deal
@ last M$ have stepped into the programme. Now let us see if they can be uplifted!
The truth is that Bing is pretty decent as a media search. If you’re looking for a video, for example, it works very well.
Of course, it isn’t really MS tech. They bought it from someone else.
MS Live Search was a flop.
@FreeBeer
Mark these words, there’s going to come a time in the future where you’ll question your life’s mission of deriding Microsoft. It’s when Apple becomes just as evil as the original evil empire. You see the signs on the wall. When you stop to think, there’s nothing that makes Apple any less better, except for … less marketshare, and a nicer user interface. Apple, even at this early stage of 9% marketshare, is showing signs. Draconian NDA’s for iPhone developers. Kicking out GoogleTalk. Literally, Apple could not care a stuff about it’s customers. It is all about their money. So, if that’s how they are when they are 9% marketshare, imagine them when it gets to 40% marketshare. Truly — and you mark these words — you are going to wonder if you’ve spent your efforts wisely. You’ll get disillusioned with yourself, and how, in your younger days, you realise that, in some small way, you contributed to the growth of the new monster. It’s like the Godzilla movies. When the old monster dies, a new even more vile monster rises to take it’s place. And the world is no longer safe.
SDK = Software Dilapidation Kit?
@Jersey_Trader: I sure was! He learned it in the playpen from one Billie Gates.
JS
Paranoid much? Aren’t you letting your worst fears get the better of you? Geez, do you check under your bed at night for monsters? What makes Apple better than Microsoft is their basic business philosphy. Make money by making products that consumers CHOOSE to buy. Microsoft’s is make money by forcing the consumer to buy their products by eliminating the competition. There is a big difference.
The next app from Microsoft is the brainchild of Bill Gates, and will put an end to destructive hurricanes. What a swell guy.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/28/hurricanes.gates.gray/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn
@JS
Draconian… Godzilla… monsters… vile… evil empires… DIRTY SOCKS! When Apple starts shipping smelly B-movie vampire socks, I’ll be worried. Until then, go back to your monster movie… or comic book… or porn site… or whatever it was you were doing before you wasted 45 seconds of our lives that we’ll never get back.
F.A.I.L.
There’s nothing that makes Apple any less better than Microsoft?
Why yes, I think most Mac users would agree with that!
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With MDN’s permission, I’ll paste a great take on this, from a few weeks ago:
MacDailyNews reader “Dev” wrote it best when sending us this link:
“This shows just how truly incompetent Microsoft’s efforts have been. They’ve been offering OSes and development tools for the mobile space for 13 freakin’ years, and yet today they are completely irrelevant in that arena. Microsoft is left to writing pitiful lib wrappers to run on their competition’s successful mobile OS. All to entice some iPhone developers to drive Apple’s traffic scraps to Microsoft’s miserably inadequate search engine that no one goes to (willingly) anyway. Pathetic.”
Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on the SDK for .. THIS little beauty ?
So that’s why I crapped my pants after lunch. And here I thought it was a case of bad guacamole.
@JS
So by Apple putting the brakes on Google Voice App that basically Hijack the basic functions and of the iPhone Apple is Evil?
Sounds like Apple was looking out after the consumer to me. The Majority of iPhone users don’t give a rats ass about Google Voice. Which is still in limited beta
If Google hadn’t replace the basic functions of the iPhone with the Google Voice UI and you had to launch it separately i.e. it had it’s own App Icon, Apple most likely would have approved it already but, they choose to hijack the Apple Phone ICON and replace the Basic phone interface with their own UI. Apple is also in no rush to approve or reject Google Voice as it’s still in Limited Beta.
So far Apple Rejected Apps have for the most part been for the good of the consumer and even the developer community so, your assertion that Apple is Evil or Apple is going to be evil is well a joke. A few pissed off developers that did things they were not allowed to do isn’t evil as far as Apple’s NDA goes for the iPhone or even MacOS Developers it’s not a big deal you should read Microsoft’s NDA now that NDA is draconian. Has developers as given technically Trade secrets (all pre released code is a Trade secret) and talking about trade secrets on a public forum(s) would be violation of an NDA. Apple simply wanted to insure the novice developers that were do iPhone development understood their obligations to protect it’s trade secrets Apple had and as no issues with developers communicating with each other on it’s own secured developer forum. The rub came because so novice developers wanted to use a public forum that someone created to discuss iPhone development. Did Apple communicate it in the right way. Perhaps not but, they did get their point across. Did the Owner of the public forum for iPhone developer make too much of the issue. With out question, have all he was attempting protection his own interest and his own agenda. Which as I understand it was to gain insider Trade secret information of unreleased versions of the iPhone OS and per release information on the iPhone itself. The Site is now gone and all iPhone Developers use Apple’s Secure Developer forums to exchange information and such. So, Apple Protecting it’s trade secrets is Evil somehow? Sounds like just good business to me.
Everyone knows that Microsoft can’t keep a secret and they announce products years before they even start working on them but, is that always a good plan. Not really, The Zune is a failure, Live was a failure, Bing is a failure. Longhorn died before it became a failure (which made Microsoft a joke) Vista Longhorn’s replacement stand-in was a huge failure and monumental disaster. So, I’d say no.
So, Apple protecting it’s trade secrets till release has that done them well. By not per-announcing products Apple’s competitor have no clue as to what Apple is working on, All the conflicting and wild rumors don’t hurt either as if a competitor believes a rumor and starts rush development of a product to compete with what Apple is rumored to be getting ready to release and then Apple doesn’t release it and they’ve spend R&D;Time, Money and effort to find out Apple has really done something different now they have to start over and Apple is just that much farther ahead. Then their is all the self feed rumors and hype all of which is great free advertising.
The perfect comparison is the Zune HD by Microsoft they announced it almost a year ago and tech journalist and media types have all now seen it and most of played with a prototype unit. So, by the time Apple pops the new New iPods onto the market everyone will be talking about and reviewing them and the Zune HD’s release will basically unnoticed other then the comparison articles that will show just how far behind the Zune is compared to the iPods. And the Zune will keep it’s 3% to 4% or less of the market. If Microsoft could keep a trade secret secret until release then there might be something. Palm did the same thing with the Pre. Release before the iPhone 3G s what did the iPhone do on release it took all of the Pre’s thunder and tanked it’s sells.
What does this tell us Apple knows how to run a tech business.