Two reports from Reuters, they extrapolate on rumors that Apple is dropping Google as their search provider on the iPhone in favor of Microsoft’s Bing. The first report points to comments by Google Vice President Vic Gundotra who called the relationship between Apple and Google “stable” and he has “no reason to believe that’s going to change”.
“Apple is a very close and valuable partner and we’re very excited about the relationship we have with them today. We have no reason to believe that’s going to change,” Vic Gundotra, who leads Google’s mobile engineering, told journalists on Monday.
“We don’t want to comment on those rumours,” he said when pressed on the issue of the iPhone at a roundtable at industry trade fair Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. “We think that relationship is stable.”
The second report simply describes Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s reaction when he was asked about Microsoft bringing Bing to iPhone.
When asked about the reports, Ballmer said “I wouldn’t comment either way,” but smiled, and repeated the phrase when the reporter remarked that Ballmer looked happy.
It’s worth mentioning again that Apple is reportedly receiving $100 million per year from Google for being the default search engine on iPhone.
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