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Nice, but they should open up everything more and let people install any search engine. Apple did open up quite a bit today (in terms of letting others access t
by arrrg 12y ago
Nice, but they should open up everything more and let people install any search engine. Apple did open up quite a bit today (in terms of letting others access their platform in places where Apple previously was the sole decider), so it’s not unlikely to eventually happen.
- gcb0 12y agoApple is not about giving the user control. it is about damaging competitors. My guess is that they were testing a new search engine, and since they gave that up/wasn't done in time/turned too expensive, they just put duck duck there. or maybe they didn't even tried... anway, that does not matter. Since the point was not to have a search engine, it was to not have google by default until google pay it up to be there. ...the fact that you hope apple will relinquish control of any aspect of your mac/ios usage is cute.
- hcarvalhoalves 12y agoYou can set the search provider on current Safari, so I'm guessing there'll be a way to install a system-wide search provider. That would be very handy and I can see Spotlight being a lot more powerful if that's possible (integrating with specialized fact DBs, SaaS, etc.).