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> Google quietly planned to put a lid on Apple’s search ambitions. The company looked for ways to undercut Spotlight by producing its own version for iPhones an
by nmilo 3y ago
> Google quietly planned to put a lid on Apple’s search ambitions. The company looked for ways to undercut Spotlight by producing its own version for iPhones and to persuade more iPhone users to use Google’s Chrome web browser instead of Apple’s Safari browser, according to internal Google documents reviewed by The New York Times.
So their top secret plan is to.. make a competing product? AKA what all companies always do with their competition?
- simonw 3y agoThe next sentence is more interesting: > At the same time, Google studied how to pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone by leveraging a new European law intended to help small companies compete with Big Tech.
- datavirtue 3y agoGroan...late stage tech
- goalonetwo 3y agoquarterly reminder that regulation is usually favoring the existing big players in the market. (see what is currently going on with AI regulation)
- trompetenaccoun 3y agoOr banking regulation for centuries.
- supriyo-biswas 3y agoEuropeans like to cry blasphemy whenever this is mentioned, but the article above is great evidence of it, one which I have to save for later discussions.
- worik 3y ago> regulation is usually favoring the existing big players Yes. But it is not a law of nature. And no regulation is very bad for consumers It is a balance, and there are trade offs
- Kbelicius 3y agoSince this is an article on regulation that increases competition in the market and it is your opinion that it is favoring the big players than what you are saying is that competitive markets favor big players. Will we now be receiving a quarterly reminder that competition favors the big players?
- TerrifiedMouse 3y ago> pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone I wonder if this might backfire and have the opposite effect, compel Apple to enter the search engine game because Google is attacking them on their own turf. If Google controls search and the browser on iOS, Apple would have ceded a ton of control to Google.
- Kbelicius 3y agoThe last paragraph is much more interesting: > “I prefer companies to compete on the merits for consumers to want to use their products by offering higher-quality products,” Mr. Hurwitz said. “Not by paying lawyers to go to the European Union and get rules in place in order to obtain access to their competitors’ platforms.” This somehow implies that Apple with Spotlight and Safari competed on merits for consumers and it won over Google alternatives and now Google is somehow trying to use the law to get an advantage... basically the author nor Mr. Hurwitz have no idea what they are talking about.