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It’s true. If you look at the history, breaking up companies often results in each division doing well and maybe not an improvement as Youtube/Android/Search/G
by daft_pink 2y ago
It’s true. If you look at the history, breaking up companies often results in each division doing well and maybe not an improvement as Youtube/Android/Search/Gmail/Adwords/Chrome all need to earn a profit independently.
At a minimum, not having Google paying Firefox/Apple to promote them as the default is a good thing. It’s super annoying that Safari doesn’t allow me to switch to Kagi easily.
I understand a reason they do this is to protect users like my father from adware/spyware companies putting in fake search engines, but I’m sure not getting money from Google to force a default has something to do with it as well.
- tantalor 2y ago> super annoying that Safari doesn’t allow me to switch to Kagi What does Apple not allowing you to set a custom search engine on iOS have to do with Google?
- daft_pink 2y agoGoogle pays Apple $20 billion per year to be the default search engine. I assume they either have some say or Apple want to increase the value in paying or the other search engines pay to be listed or there is some reason why safari doesn’t allow any search engines beyond a very short list. I doubt it’s an accident that you only get about 5 choices where google is the only decent choice
- tantalor 2y agoThose all sound like complaints the government could take up with Apple, not Google.