Farewell, iPhone-optimized iGoogle

Okay, fine. They decided to do away with the ig page for one reason or another. What ticks me off is that they gave us no warning before they turned it off.

iPhone users: vote with your page views. Don't access any Google services from your iPhone.

Bad call Google - this appears to be a leveraging act as a follow-up to the release of Android.

Shame, shame.

igoogle was/is just a rearranged rss reader. the newly updated google reader for iphone/ipodtouch works well. i use it alot.

Google is turning into Microsoft. I am going to start using yahoo just to protest. igoogle for the iphone was incredible. now it is HORRIBLE. Companies should know that any step backwards that affects millions is going to have adverse effects. Google is no longer my default search engine due to this monopolistic approach

iGoogle for iPhone used to be my start page on my precious...
Now that it is gone ugly, I will definitely switch to another customizable page, made for Apple's Safari

Android has bad side effects.

IMHO: The ig-page was superior because of
a) fast-load times of feeds and headings (much faster than the rss apps I tried, and much faster than Google reader)
b) simple uncluttered UI, maximizing use of real estate on screen (I find most of the rss apps as well as google reader on the iPhone too cluttered with buttons, icons and links I never use)
c) I personally prefered the simple display of the latest messages rather than dozens of outdated old unread messages (matter of personal preference probably)
d) on a single page expanding from feed name to headers, and from headers to feed-text without loading a complete new page; no navigation from screen to screen
e) all done within Safari, eliminating the close-rss-app and open-safari when navigating to and from the complete article

What's the big deal here? iGoogle homepage may be effectively gone, but the Google Reader page still works in it's iPhone-optimized format. It's my go-to RSS portal on the iPhone.

By all means though, please explain to me why the iPhone "ig" homepage was superior to the standard iPhone "Reader" page, or alternately, if there is an even more efficient option available to me than to two mentioned.

The new google just sucks. It completely blows. It's unusable for me. I can't find anything. I don't know how or why it's organized the way it is. It's nothing like my homepage.

When Yahoo changed about a year ago, I had to switch to google. Maybe I'll have to take another look at Yahoo now..

This pissed me off too.
Same process as everyone else: thought the phone was broken at first.

Some key features I miss: every morning, I'd read the NY Times headlines and check the weather and my Google calendar all from the same page.

Changing that up on us, without notice, really sucks.

I'm hoping iYahoo makes up for it.

Interesting. Apparently, Google does not rise to the level of perfectionism that Apple works toward. The iGoogle team is obviously not the same team that worked on Chrome. Too bad. If this were Apple this would be a big deal. Can there be a chink in the Google armor? I think so.