Doohickie
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One must admit, though, that Google has treated WP with a good bit of hostility.
I don't know that and I don't care. I'm just a phone user, not an industry insider. I don't care about company-to-company politics.
However, the complaining about "I accidentally hit it all the time" doesn't hold water for me. I don't see many Android phones out there that don't have capacitive buttons across the bottom. There's no difference here.
I'm not saying that Android phones are better. For me, it really is about the physical design of my particular phone, the HTC 8X. For the way I naturally hold the phone, I frequently activate the button without intending to. It's annoying. I may still be on the learning curve and may eventually train myself out of these inadvertent activations, but right now, as I said earlier, it's the single most annoying feature of the phone.
Because I use Google and not Bing, the inadvertent activations are that much more annoying, because the button accesses a function I never, ever use.
I really have nothing against Bing itself; it's a search engine. Like someone else said, it works pretty much the same as Google. But I have used Google for years and that's what I prefer. It doesn't bother me that I have to access through a tile button on the screen. If it wasn't available, Bing would probably do everything I do with Google, and I would adjust. But even if I used Bing and I preferred Bing, the fact that I often hit the button when I don't want to do a search would still be annoying.