Comments on: iGoogle for iPhone is gone: Google, you suck

By: peter

peter — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:42:23 +0000

There is actually a way to do what you’re talking about. You have to have your iPhone jailbroken and install an app called Useragent Faker from Cydia. Then you fake your browser’s (MobileSafari’s) user agent string using one from a desktop browser, and iGoogle will load properly. I haven’t tried it myself, but it might be a full fix. The only problem is that any iPhone optimized site you might visit would require you to turn the useragent faker off if you wanted to see the iPhone version.

By: stevenmb

stevenmb — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:38:19 +0000

Hi– Great find– your partial fix works great, but if I move from one tab to another, it goes back to /m/ig.

Somebody else posted the fact that you can go to google.com/ig/i from any other platform and it works, which suggests that they are identifying iphones to single them out for redirect… any way you know of to fool igoogle into not recognizing the iphone, and thinking it’s another platform? Not sure my logic works, but then I’m not a genuine geek, so all I can do is conjecture….

By: LuckyMan

LuckyMan — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 12:00:48 +0000

Dugg

http://digg.com/apple/iGoogle_for_iPhone_is_gone_Google_you_suck

By: dusty59

dusty59 — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 21:51:04 +0000

I hope this does create an uproar!