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This is Apple we’re talking about. That search engine would be a skunkworks project for several years and rapidly become the default soon after release. Presum
by pdpi 5y ago
This is Apple we’re talking about. That search engine would be a skunkworks project for several years and rapidly become the default soon after release.
Presumably, what Google gets out of this is the assurance that no such skunkworks project exists.
- littlecranky67 5y agoI'm assuming the agreement would not cover skunkworks projects as this would be clearly deemed anti-competitive (collusion) if that deal ever saw the light of day. Even a deal of not launching a product might be deemed as such. But I assume you can't really launch a search engine without a couple of years of user feedback, i.e. tracking what links get clicked and which not, to influence the ranking. And that would require an official launch from Apple, which would probably result in Google to terminate the agreement immediately on launch (even if it is not made the default search engine). So even without written/verbal agreement in that field, Apple knows that the minute they publicly launch a search engine, the deal is off. I think such a deal would fall into the tacit collusion category [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
- treis 5y agoThe FAANGs did obviously illegal collision on hiring before. Don't see why they wouldn't do so on other stuff. Probably have learned their lesson to not E-mail about it too.