• glockenspiel@programming.dev
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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      1 year 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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        1 year 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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            1 year ago

            Source?

            Edit: I googled it. There is no source, basically just a guy claiming that would be logical for them to do but his timeframe is already proven wrong and Apple hasn’t announced anything.

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        1 year ago

        efforts

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