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If I were hypothetically at Apple, I'd use the funding from Google paying to promote search in order to exclusively fund creating a new search engine.
by seeknotfind 3y ago
If I were hypothetically at Apple, I'd use the funding from Google paying to promote search in order to exclusively fund creating a new search engine.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 3y agoWhy do that, when if you did that you would be: 1. Turning down billions of dollars in revenue, while for Apple this is not exactly something that makes or breaks their business it’s not exactly just a tiny little line item either 2. Inviting a door to your own monopoly/anticompetitive arguments against you, when you already have enough of that problem in other spaces 3. Having 1 and 2 be true, AND also spending the resources to build your own engine, which as time and companies like DDG have proven demonstrate that one does not simply build a good search engine with little effort It’s clearly an arrangement that’s beneficial to both of the parties to the detriment of others