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If Apple wants Google Maps in the app store, they could make it a condition in their next round of default search engine negotiations. Apple has all the leverag
by blakecutler 14y ago
If Apple wants Google Maps in the app store, they could make it a condition in their next round of default search engine negotiations. Apple has all the leverage.
- nilsbunger 14y agoGood point, but apple doesn't have many alternatives in the search box. What are they going to do, switch to BING???
- blakecutler 14y agoDon't see why not. Yandex in Russia and Baidu in China would be easy switches. If you removed branding from the search engine results, I wonder how many users would notice or care that Apple switched to Bing. The quality difference is small: http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-choose-in-the-blind-test/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-... If there weren't realistic alternatives, Google wouldn't pay Apple ~$1B per year.
- ramses0 14y agoYes?