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Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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Re: Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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Forgive the paraphrasing but: > Apple should seek to use its monopoly power on iOS browsers to take greater search revenue This couldn’t possibly end with large suits. And after: > Google are bad for privacy This article is nuts.

Can you expand on how you believe Google is privacy-promoting?

Re: Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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post #3

Forgive the paraphrasing but: > Apple should seek to use its monopoly power on iOS browsers to take greater search revenue This couldn’t possibly end with large suits. And after: > Google are bad for privacy This article is nuts.

> This couldn’t possibly end with large suits

How is their current system using monopoly power to boost another monopoly worse than supporting an underdog in the search market?

Re: Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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Forgive the paraphrasing but: > Apple should seek to use its monopoly power on iOS browsers to take greater search revenue This couldn’t possibly end with large suits. And after: > Google are bad for privacy This article is nuts.

Google is undeniably bad for privacy. That’s the whole reason they pay a premium to be the default search.

Re: Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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What a bad take, so Apple should not only forgo $15B revenue per year they should also spend a ton of resources to make their own search engine while providing a worse search experience to their users.

It would be relatively easy to do better, for an org like Apple. It’s a no-brainer really with how awful google search has become. Easier than maps IMO and Apple has managed that.

Re: Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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Apple should light $20 billion dollars a year on fire. I’m sure the shareholders will love that.

You’re right it would hurt for a few quarters or even years, based on the typical (detrimental) stock market mindset, but it could be a great move mid to long term.

Re: Apple Should End Their Google Search Partnership

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If I'm reading this right:

- Apple should light $15b/yr on fire, so that they can:

- Build their own search engine, which will somehow be better than Google, and

- Monetise it even better than Google did, somehow

Wow I haven't read such a bad take in quite some time.

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