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Why would the Mozilla project point Firefox's search at Bing? Why would Apple?
by Semiapies 17y ago
Why would the Mozilla project point Firefox's search at Bing?
Why would Apple?
- simon_ 17y agoMore money? Also, Apple might be strategically happier working with Microsoft than Google right now.
- lmkg 17y agoApple would because nowadays Google is a more direct competitor than Microsoft is. Mozilla, I would consider far less likely; they're less profit-driven, more ideological, Google aligns more ideologically (although not completely), and Microsoft and Google are about equally direct competitors.
- donaq 17y agoReally? Has the mobile market eclipsed the laptop and desktop markets already? I wonder if Apple's core business is now Macintosh or the iPhone.
- aresant 17y agoGoogle has Mozilla LOCKED in through 2011. Mozilla makes $50 - 80 million a YEAR from their search referrals. But in context, MSFT has tens-of-billions in CASH sitting around, and is trying to win the internet space. If they did a 1.5x revenue payout vs google (keeping in mind that's not all cash lay out, they net gains from use of their search engine) and dropped a billion in 5 years I would vote for that as a shareholder.
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- aresant 17y agoThey have tens of billions. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=msft Balance Sheet Total Cash (mrq): 33.45B Total Debt (mrq): 6.00B Total Debt/Equity (mrq): N/A
- brianobush 17y agoand google has 24.48B, but what is more powerful is the revenue growth they have on top of that cash. Msft has a large market cap and can't grow like it used to, so goog's cash flow is going to allow for some pretty bold moves (acquisitions?)