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Just because you buy something from someone outside your company does not mean you're not benefiting from their business model. Companies don't operate in a vac

Just because you buy something from someone outside your company does not mean you're not benefiting from their business model. Companies don't operate in a vacuum. To put an extreme example, just because Apple pays Foxconn does not mean they don't benefit from what's effectively slave labour. They're not removed from the effects of their transaction. The principal works in reverse too.

zepto 7y ago
Sure - but Apple doesn’t control Google’s business model any more than I do. I dislike Google’s business model but I use google search amongst others because they have a monopoly. If a competitor arose that Apple’s customers were happy with, I’m sure they’d prefer to choose a different company.
- samtheprogram 7y ago
  Apple knows exactly where their money is coming from and is complicit. They don't care, because Google has the best user experience, and their users that do care are power users that can opt-out. As much as Apple cares about privacy, nothing matches Google in search quality. Steve Jobs once said in an interview with Wired: > When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. Sadly, I think that quote applies a lot to Google as well. I think a lot of people, and at least anecdotally almost everyone I talk to, just don't/doesn't care about (or maybe understand the threat of) the collection that is happening. In the case of Google, they just want to find stuff on the internet without trying multiple times or adding additional keywords to their search.
  - zepto 7y ago
    Apple didn’t design Google’s business model.
    - partialrecall 7y ago
      They chose to associate themselves with it.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  Google Search itself may have a high marketshare, but that doesn't stop you from using Bing or DuckDuckGo does it?
  - zepto 7y ago
    It stops Apple from putting another search engine first if they want to deliver the best results by default. Apple’s business model is about providing the best experience to their users.

zepto 7y ago

Sure - but Apple doesn’t control Google’s business model any more than I do. I dislike Google’s business model but I use google search amongst others because they have a monopoly. If a competitor arose that Apple’s customers were happy with, I’m sure they’d prefer to choose a different company.

samtheprogram 7y ago
Apple knows exactly where their money is coming from and is complicit. They don't care, because Google has the best user experience, and their users that do care are power users that can opt-out. As much as Apple cares about privacy, nothing matches Google in search quality. Steve Jobs once said in an interview with Wired: > When you're young, you look at television and think, there's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. Sadly, I think that quote applies a lot to Google as well. I think a lot of people, and at least anecdotally almost everyone I talk to, just don't/doesn't care about (or maybe understand the threat of) the collection that is happening. In the case of Google, they just want to find stuff on the internet without trying multiple times or adding additional keywords to their search.
- zepto 7y ago
  Apple didn’t design Google’s business model.
  - partialrecall 7y ago
    They chose to associate themselves with it.
cameronbrown 7y ago
Google Search itself may have a high marketshare, but that doesn't stop you from using Bing or DuckDuckGo does it?
- zepto 7y ago
  It stops Apple from putting another search engine first if they want to deliver the best results by default. Apple’s business model is about providing the best experience to their users.