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I will place a bet against Apple successfully launching their own general purpose Google competitor successfully before 2028. Search is incredibly complex and
by sargun 3y ago
I will place a bet against Apple successfully launching their own general purpose Google competitor successfully before 2028.
Search is incredibly complex and expensive to build and run. Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low margin services (iirc they’re around double the cost of gdrive). Say, it’s 2-3 years for them to build out capacity, and another 1-2 years to get the software working well. That still would make it a mad dash.
That being said, I can see Apple building a special purpose alternative to Google, indexing a small subset of the web, which is curated - think what gets put on Apple News, or similar.
- freedomben 3y agoWhat they may lack today, they can easily hire away from Google. They have plenty of money to do whatever it takes
- sargun 3y agoRight, but hiring, building a team, getting them performant — takes time. Apple can do it as a skunkworks style operation, probably better than most other companies out there, but such an undertaking would be a multibillion dollar hole that I expect would be hard to explain away, even if it classified as “iCloud R&D”
- barkerja 3y ago> Apple lacks the server side chops to build super low margin services https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engineers https://www.protocol.com/apple-hires-cloud-open-source-engin... Has much materialized from this?