http://www.slashgear.com/yahoo-mobile-apps-taken-down-no-one-notices-27211113/ Feeding Your Gadget and Tech Obsessions Thu, 17 May 2012 17:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.slashgear.com/yahoo-mobile-apps-taken-down-no-one-notices-27211113/#comment-176856 MobileGeorge Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211113#comment-176856 Poor Yahoo. When the iPhone SDK was launched years ago, there were a number of people in the company who wanted to take Yahoo into the new smartphone app era, but instead people like Marcos Boerries were certain that feature phones were the future and crushed those efforts. Yahoo initially fought the idea of customized iPhone apps and instead produced apps that looked like their feature phone counterparts. Of course, these all looked and worked like crap and no one used them. As the smartphone was taking off, Yahoo continued to make significant bets on their old Yahoo Go and Blueprint strategies to support feature phones. When Bartz came in, she put an end to the feature phone focus but didn’t come up with any new coherent mobile strategy. Individual product groups were left to come up with their own mobile ideas and so we got a mishmash of half-baked ideas released into the app store. Now, four years after the iPhone SDK ushered in the app era, Yahoo finally decides they need a better mobile strategy. Is it any wonder Yahoo is in the shape it’s in?

]]> http://www.slashgear.com/yahoo-mobile-apps-taken-down-no-one-notices-27211113/#comment-176813 Chris Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:32:00 +0000 http://www.slashgear.com/?p=211113#comment-176813 They removed Yahoo answers on Android. All that app was was a wrapper for the mobile site. Vsit the mobile site and you would get the same exact thing. 

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