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I disagree with you There is probably going to be another search player willing to pay to be the default on Apple, with the increase of usage, due to being the
by polote 6y ago
I disagree with you
There is probably going to be another search player willing to pay to be the default on Apple, with the increase of usage, due to being the default, they will make more money, with more money they will be able to improve their service faster.
Unless search quality is critical for Apple, which would be surprising seeing the search quality of Siri
- ffggvv 6y agonot just money but data. the more data they get the better their search results get. and the better their results get the more money they get in a loop. meaning a startup can’t compete due to the sheer amount of data google has
- treis 6y agoI'm surprised by how many people are ok with this sort of pay to play. The search engine (or any other tech) that wins in the market should be the one best at being a search engine. Not the one willing to pay Apple the most money.
- edogg 6y agoIt’s just the default - if another search engine is compelling people are free to switch
- whimsicalism 6y ago"just the default" seems to diminish the enormous importance of defaults. changing "just the default" on organ donation to presumed consent w/ family veto, for instance, would essentially end all organ supply issues in the nation.
- kinkrtyavimoodh 6y agoIf it doesn't matter that it's 'just the default' why is the DoJ so upset about Google paying to be the default? You can't simultaneously argue that being the default is irrelevant and that it's bad to pay to be the default.
- edogg 6y agoi'm not arguing that it's bad to pay to be the default. If the default service is worse than another people will switch to the other service. People install all kinds of apps on their phones, they can switch the default search engine too.
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- ClumsyPilot 6y agoYou are pedaling a fantasy that has been proven false by thousands of peer reviewed studies.
- edogg 6y agoI would be interested in reading one of the studies in which the default was set to an inferior product and people stayed with the default despite there being a superior competitor and nearly zero effort required to switch.