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Perhaps "ad company" is reductive, as there are different ways to make money for offering visibility. Arguably the same definition of "advertising company" as
by Terretta 3y ago
Perhaps "ad company" is reductive, as there are different ways to make money for offering visibility.
Arguably the same definition of "advertising company" as Walmart, by charging those selling products in its store for placement, display ads, inclusion in promotional materials, etc.
Arguably not the same definition as ClearChannel, who will take money from anyone to make every drive in America less scenic by plastering them with billboards. (And who combine data from third parties to understand who is seeing which billboards when.)
Apple is a first party supermarket that lets sellers self-promote, Google is operator of third party billboards at scale that reaches and watches all the traffic.
That said, I agree with the thread above that Apple taking great pains to anonymize things like maps trips, while selling user searching priority wholesale to Google, is hypocritical.
TL;DR: I don't understand why Apple doesn't acquire Kagi, put Kagi basic in iCloud and Kagi Ultimate into Apple One, and go from there.
- n40487171 3y agoDon't doubt that Walmart tracks users/shoppers in depth: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/walmart-says-ozempic-weight-loss-drugs-causing-slight-pullback-by-shoppers https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-04/walmart-s...
- Jensson 3y ago> Apple is a first party supermarket that lets sellers self-promote Apple works hard to change that though. Apple made 26% of their revenue from services last quarter, it was less than 10% 8 years ago, that is where most of their growth is coming from. They did use to make most of their money selling products, but now they started to exploit their platform dominance to make money from all other areas of it as well. Apple today isn't the Apple you bought into 10 years ago. Source of services being $21.21b / $81.8bn = 26%: https://musically.com/2023/08/04/apples-services-revenue-grows-despite-hardware-challenges/ https://musically.com/2023/08/04/apples-services-revenue-gro... > TL;DR: I don't understand why Apple doesn't acquire Kagi, put Kagi basic in iCloud and Kagi Ultimate into Apple One, and go from there. Because they make more by taking money from Google. Why is that hard to understand? Apples goal is to make money.
- nullwarp 3y agoI really don't get why people keep promoting this idea of Apple buying Kagi. People not invested in the Apple ecosystem also use Kagi and all it does is ostracize those people just like they did in the Dark Sky acquisition. It's a terribly selfish idea.