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The key difference is that there are alternatives to iOS, which isn't even a majority share of the market. Google, by contrast, has a far larger share of the s
by matthewmacleod 9y ago
The key difference is that there are alternatives to iOS, which isn't even a majority share of the market.
Google, by contrast, has a far larger share of the search engine market than Apple has of the mobile device market. That means it's more of a concern by default.
- velobro 9y agoThen Apple should make their own search engine...
- tyingq 9y agoI suppose Apple could modify Safari to skip through AMP pages and go to the original source.
- MBCook 9y agoThat requires releasing new versions of iOS. Google can work around that way faster than Apple can try to play catch-up. It's a losing battle.
- obstinate 9y agoIt doesn't require it, except that Apple has failed to decouple Safari from iOS, and so it can't be updated like regular apps.
- MBCook 9y agoApple has certain things that they can push any time, such as the lists that safari looks at to find out if websites are dangerous or some of the security stuff they have. However they ship it, they'd still be in an arms race against google to keep AMP pages hidden from Safari users. That doesn't seem like a productive use of anyone's time.
- H4CK3RM4N 9y agoI think encrypted.google.com doesn't use AMP yet, so they could make that the default search
- zanny 9y agoExcept iOS is a captive market. Once you have owners of i-devices, switching requries capital investment and time moving to an alternate platform. You can exploit them heavily before they start leaving. If we are talking about search, you can stop using google by typing bing.com or duckduckgo.com in your url bar any time you want, and every major browser supports changing the default search engine, even Chrome.