According to TUAW it appears that Google has dropped their iPhone optimized version of iGoogle and they now seem to redirect users to a generic mobile version. What is Googles reasoning behind this? We got a response from a Google employee on why they dumped the iPhone version of iGoogle. But we think this is just another way for Google to take a stab at the popular iPhone and give their Android another feature the iPhone (and BlackBerry) lack, functioning Gmail in iGoogle mobile. Will this hurt the iPhone much in the iPhone vs Android battle? I don’t think so.
Hey everyone, I have an update for you. We’ve decided to direct iPhone users to the standard mobile iGoogle page. We’ve found that people hit iGoogle from lots of different phones — we want to ensure you’ll all see the same version.
Most or all of your existing content should translate over to the standard mobile version. The only exception would be any gadgets that aren’t compatible with most mobile browsers.
We’ve got several articles in our Help Center about the mobile experience on iGoogle, which you can find in our Help Center
-Ray
[Source: theiphoneblog]
January 19, 2009
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