iGoogle For iPhone Killed

Folks who don’t own an iPhone might not have noticed, but it seems that Google has silently killed its iPhone-version of the iGoogle site. iPhone users who pop over to the site will be redirected to the standard version of the site. It’s not surprise to hear that this has drawn a lot of complaints of the hoards of iPhone users out there. Is this a ploy from Google to try and give a subtle boost to its own Android platform? A message from a Google employee at the Google support forum said:

“We 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.”