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hoo boy that would have been interesting
by outside1234 3y ago
hoo boy that would have been interesting
- gjsman-1000 3y agoI think Apple would've seen the name Bing and being associated with it as being a net negative for brand reputation.
- dangus 3y agoI don’t think they would have called it Bing. It would get the DarkSky treatment. Apple has far more of a network of users than Bing. They don’t need Bing’s users or brand. “Bing” would be the default search on iOS and macOS and it would instantly have an order of magnitude more users than Bing. I’m not exaggerating. There are over a billion active iPhone users. There are 100 million active Bing users.
- koolba 3y agoI bet they would just call it “Finder”.
- qqtt 3y agoYou aren't comparing apples to apples with those numbers. Bing has 100 million active daily users. Apple has about 2 billion registered "active" devices, which means they were used within a 30 day period. In this case, you are comparing daily active users for a particular service with monthly active users for an entire device. It's not clear if any Apple service reaches a lofty DAU. Apple hasn't released daily active users for any of it's services, but it has argued recently that iMessage has less than 45 million active users in the EU (https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/04/imessage-app-store-gatekeeper-not-big-enough/ https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/04/imessage-app-store-gatekeeper...). Meanwhile, some estimates put Bing's monthly active users over a billion.
- addicted 3y agoIm pretty sure it would be “Search”. And that’s it.
- tmpX7dMeXU 3y agoMaybe they’d rename it Ping. They wouldn’t even have to get new t-shirts made :)
- callalex 3y agoHA! Thanks for that reminder. I belly laughed when they launched that, and I can’t even tell you when it died because it never really took off in the first place.