John Gruber on AT&T's first Android phone using Yahoo as the default search engine

> The phone is the Motorola Backflip. I presume Motorola and/or AT&T did this because they worked out a deal with Yahoo where they get paid for making them the default search engine. > > Interesting proof of just how much freedom Android’s open source licensing model offers to handset makers and carriers. What are the odds that AT&T and Motorola will be able to make a Windows Phone 7 handset with, say, Google as the default search engine? Fair question. Here’s another: What are the chances that most of AT&T’s customers WANT Yahoo to be the default search engine on an Android phone?

I could have switched my iPhone to search with Yahoo. I didn’t.

Sometimes freedom isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.