Comment on Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News

mightygalahad@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If the goodwill they garner from that makes APPL go up because it matches the privacy expectation they are branding themselves with, they might be making even more money anyway.

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  • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. They are trying to win the privacy game, so a small sacrifice now could turn to be quite profitable.

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    • The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Privacy theater*

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      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Partially, but also partially it’s legit. I generally don’t have much positive to say about Apple, but they make pretty things and the privacy is generally better than most.

        Of course, you pay through the nose for it.

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• quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To harm a competitors stock price is more than they are paying out

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• glockenspiel@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could be that Apple will acquire DuckDuckGo. A little hasty to presume it I suppose, but Apple has to wonder how much money they are leaving on the table by taking Google’s payments. If Google will pay them more than $9 billion/year just to be default—what does that say about how profitable Apple’s absolutely huge and locked-in base can be?

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  • Hildegarde@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Could apple be using the press as part of their bargaining strategy with google over the default search engine fee?

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    • Psychodelic@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only always

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  • QHC@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How is Apple going to monetize DuckDuckGo to make up for that $9 billion, without compromising their other efforts w/r/t user and data privacy?

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    • ilinamorato@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How much do they monetize Apple Maps for? Sometimes companies just buy something to be a service supporting the thing they actually sell.

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      • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Rhey are going to sell ads on Apple maps.

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    • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      efforts

      I think the appropriate word here is marketing. There’s no real privacy in an Apple device.

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    • The_Mixer_Dude@lemmus.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What data privacy?

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• EeeDawg101@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  A Washington post article I was reading yesterday said google pays apple $19 billion this year to be the default browser on iPhones.

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• Chunk@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There is a big anti trust case against Google right now and this arrangement with apple is one of the topics of interest. If Google loses they could be forced to stop paying.

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• TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who says they’re not negotiating a larger stream of cash?

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    With DuckDuckGo?

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    • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No, with Google. If Google pay Apple more, they might be more willing to overlook the reasons they’re looking to switch.

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      • p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        This whole thing is just negotiation theater. Apple never intents to switch.

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