Yahoo smites dedicated Mobile group
By Chris Ziegler 
posted March 6th 2010 11:57AM
posted March 6th 2010 11:57AM
As mocoNews points out, Google CEO Eric Schmidt made a fascinating (if not obvious) observation at his MWC keynote last month: for his company, mobile's now the primary focus while the desktop plays a secondary role. Yahoo seems to be reaching a similar conclusion on news that it has officially broken up its Mobile unit, instead moving mobile-focused employees into other divisions within the organization -- in other words, mobile will become integral to every group rather than an afterthought pushed to a separate set of bodies. Yahoo's been playing second fiddle to Google and Microsoft in this game -- understandably so, considering both of its biggest competitors have their own mobile operating systems -- but it remains to be seen how big of an impact this'll have. Defaulting an Android-powered phone to Yahoo search is a good start, we suppose.
It might be because of Motorola why Yahoo is the default search engine of the Backflip.
But I believe its because AT&T kind of OWNS Yahoo and Yellowpages and such.
Or it might be Yahoo themselves trying to sneak in somewhere.
Actually it's more of a BAD start. And AT&T did it 'cuz they have a thing with Yahoo and 'cuz they're Apples ho, so they didn't wanna P.O. Apple by having an Android device that ACTUALLY uses Google. :/ Thems AT&T be lackin'.
Yahoo is second fiddle to Microsoft in mobile? How, precisely? I see a lot more of Yahoo on carrier-branded devices than Windows Live.