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Honest take: I’m an Apple customer (no, I’m not interested in hearing how terrible that makes me). I want to see them focusing on innovating in hardware that wo

Honest take: I’m an Apple customer (no, I’m not interested in hearing how terrible that makes me). I want to see them focusing on innovating in hardware that works for their products. I want to see them improving and stabilizing Swift and SwuftUI. I want to see them actually investing in fixing long-standing issues with macOS. The last thing I want as an Apple customer is for them to launch a giant new undertaking like search. Right now they have been fairly good, with some significant exceptions, on user privacy issues. A search engine, especially one relying on ad revenue, would muddy those incentives. And it would be a massive investment in an area they just don’t have any reason to touch aside from trying to stick it to Google.

tambourine_man 3y ago
I share your concern, but I'm a bit ambivalent on this. I though the same of Apple TV: I don't want them wasting energy on things like bad movies/TV shows when macOS's got so many missing features and bugs. It turns out, it didn't diverge their attention, at least from the outside, and they created good content. Google needs a good push, that's for sure. I doubt Apple has the core talent now to compete when Siri is what is and has been for more than a decade, but who knows, they've got the money. Maybe they could buy Kagi.
- freedomben 3y ago
  Damn you're right, they're probably just going to buy kagi :-(
- dmvdoug 3y ago
  AppleTV felt to me like it wasn’t so far outside Apple’s reach, especially taking into consideration iTunes as a major product/precursor. I’m more concerned about the incentives that being in search would create, to be honest, because if it is at all based on ad revenue for support, it injects incentives exactly opposed to the ones they have now as far as user privacy, etc. are concerned.
  - tambourine_man 3y ago
    The incentives issue is concerning. The move to services has already gave the Settings App a grocery store feeling (“click here to get more storage/family pack”)

tambourine_man 3y ago

I share your concern, but I'm a bit ambivalent on this. I though the same of Apple TV: I don't want them wasting energy on things like bad movies/TV shows when macOS's got so many missing features and bugs. It turns out, it didn't diverge their attention, at least from the outside, and they created good content. Google needs a good push, that's for sure. I doubt Apple has the core talent now to compete when Siri is what is and has been for more than a decade, but who knows, they've got the money. Maybe they could buy Kagi.

freedomben 3y ago
Damn you're right, they're probably just going to buy kagi :-(
dmvdoug 3y ago
AppleTV felt to me like it wasn’t so far outside Apple’s reach, especially taking into consideration iTunes as a major product/precursor. I’m more concerned about the incentives that being in search would create, to be honest, because if it is at all based on ad revenue for support, it injects incentives exactly opposed to the ones they have now as far as user privacy, etc. are concerned.
- tambourine_man 3y ago
  The incentives issue is concerning. The move to services has already gave the Settings App a grocery store feeling (“click here to get more storage/family pack”)