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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rhey are going to sell ads on Apple maps.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

efforts

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

What data privacy?