Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Safari - Google search deal expires soon. New default for Safari ... Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 16:21:25 +1100 Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <010220151401050621%invid@loclanet.com> <201502011528166493-xxx@yyyzzz> <010220152333528245%nospam@nospam.invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net Rm0TF9vnKpdohGEUBkW4rAEyKVv3U/DSQJ164/DjhA0H1msJE= Cancel-Lock: sha1:R6YRgV2j80gQGNYl+hRV5c1cFgY= In-Reply-To: <010220152333528245%nospam@nospam.invalid> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:27581 nospam wrote > Rod Speed wrote >>>> Why would they set ANY search engine as the default. >>> Business and money. From a business perspective, Apple's default >>> settings control a huge segment of the market, if they change their >>> default from Google to something else, it will make a noticeable dent >>> on the bottom line of both Google and the gaining search engine. >>> If one particular search engine is willing to pay more than another >>> to have their bottom line go up, well, that works for Apple. >> But google is apple's main competitor so its more complicated than that. > actually, samsung is. Wrong, as always. > google and apple have totally different business models. Irrelevant to who is their main competitor in the smartphone and tablet OS market, fuckwit.