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Meh, even without the mobile platform, which they didn’t have in 2005, there were no good alternatives to Google search then and switching the default to someth
by milemi 4y ago
Meh, even without the mobile platform, which they didn’t have in 2005, there were no good alternatives to Google search then and switching the default to something else would have hurt Safari more than Google. My money is on the bidding war.
- shadowgovt 4y agoDon't underestimate Jobs's willingness to be a petty asshole. At that time, Yahoo was still in play and Apple could even have been willing to back MSN. History might have played out very differently if most search traffic from the Apple platform was going through MSN instead of Google.