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0 pointsscarface743y ago0 comments

Google is also a competitor in mobile which is a much bigger deal. Apple and Microsoft have been competitors and at the same time worked together since Microsoft wrote AppleSoft Basic in 1980. Microsoft was on stage with Jobs at the introduction of the Mac in 1984 and has consistently developed Office for the Mac since 1986 through all of the Macs transitions.

If Google didn’t need to pay, why are they paying $18 Billion a year?

I added the part “are forced to” because as much as I rail against the government getting involved in the free market when it comes to tech, it even makes me feel uneasy that the two major mobile platforms are unabashedly colluding and one is outright paying the other to funnel customers.

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winnie_ua3y ago

I don't think Android is a competitor to iOS. Most iOS users fanatically don't want other mobile OS. Don't think Ads can change this :D

Not sure about PC, but I bet availability of more apps and games can tip the scales. I consider MS more competition than Android. But that's just my perspective.

> it even makes me feel uneasy that the two major mobile platforms are unabashedly colluding and one is outright paying the other to funnel customers.

Indeed sounds creepy.

P.S. As other commenters mentioned -- there is Brave search, about which I was not aware, that it has their own Crawler. Apple could potentially switch to it(or buy it).

scarface74OP3y ago

I doubt users of ARM based Macs are saying “I really want a laptop with a quarter of the battery life, gets hot enough to melt steel when I open three Chrome windows and sounds like a 747 and on top of that is slower”.

These days as long as consumers have Office, Adobe’s software and a good web browser, they don’t care.

Apple does have its own crawler - AppleBot. It uses its own “search engine” in parts of the interface.

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