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Yeah the last person we sent to the moon was in 1972, so long ago that Eugene Cernan has since died at 82 years old.
Is there an updated version of this xkcd somewhere? https://xkcd.com/893/
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It's regional. For a long time (in internet time), Apple Maps were clearly inferior to Google Maps. These days, it's more nuanced. In some geographies they have parity. In a select few, Apple is ahead. For most, though, Google is better. For speed and privacy reasons, I check Apple Maps first. If I don't find what I'm looking for, then I go to Google Maps and follow up by force-quitting Google Maps when I'm done.
where do you think apple maps is better than google? google maps is the only google service i still use on a regular basis because it's clearly better than apple maps for me (california mostly). apple maps is ok for simple use cases like finding a known business, but an ambiguous search on google maps is almost always better, as is their routing. i'd love to find a better mapping service for these more complicated us…
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Apple is missing a search engine. That doesn't imply that Apple needs a search engine, nor does it imply that acquiring one would be the most profitable thing they could be doing with their available resources. Arguably, a key part of Apple's success is that they don't behave like Microsoft.
DDG doesn't even -really- have a search engine, they are using Bing's API. So the acquisition wouldn't even make sense.
Surely DuckDuckGo has implemented their own search engine, crawler and indexer apart from other providers?
I also think the name DuckDuckGo is too long and too cumbersome, they should consider rebranding to something simpler. Branding matters.
Why hasn't Apple bought DuckDuckGo? I also think the name DuckDuckGo is too long and too cumbersome, they should consider rebranding to something simpler. Branding matters.
When DuckDuckGo is set to a dark theme, the map is also in dark mode! To me, that is an incredible valuable feature. Edit: which is a fallback to Mapbox, no Apple Maps feature.
Here is how it looks on my machine: https://i.imgur.com/rpCiJSA.jpg
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DDG's main marketing model is talking about how they believe Google is privacy threat, so they'll highlight that angle in any change.
Or Apple's marketing team lead to a donation to DDG to make it possible
Why hasn't Apple bought DuckDuckGo? I also think the name DuckDuckGo is too long and too cumbersome, they should consider rebranding to something simpler. Branding matters.
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Replace it with what if I may ask?
Hey spurgu, that's yet to be decided. :) We're investigating some of the self-hosted options or our own log-based metrics (think ElasticSearch + Kibana). We're trying to avoid third-parties, if at all possible.
