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: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 06:20:21 +1100 Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <010220151401050621%invid@loclanet.com> <201502011528166493-xxx@yyyzzz> <020220152024274000%michelle@michelle.org> <030220150932518483%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 pzZSOMm5jjGBr5GHH9Z1wwXWng0UIdL0zLDXwuR8zkX7uKX0A= Cancel-Lock: sha1:2YFNx7UufRR5wf/txddmDYn88Ck= In-Reply-To: <030220150932518483%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 Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!bete-des-vosges.org!feed.ac-versailles.fr!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:27646 nospam wrote > Michelle Steiner wrote >>> But Google is *not* Apple's main competitor. In fact, there are very few >>> areas in which Apple and Google compete. Let's see.. free email services >>> (free from both) and free contact/calendar/etc syncing (free from both). >>> Where do they compete? >> In the mobile OS arena. > actually they don't. Even sillier than you usually manage. Of course they do. > google gives away android (and licenses it to some manufacturers). > apple doesn't give away ios Irrelevant to whether they do in fact compete in the mobile OS arena. > google makes the majority of its revenue from advertising. > apple makes the majority of its revenue from iphone sales. Irrelevant to whether they do in fact compete in the mobile OS arena. > google does sell nexus phones, So they do in fact compete with phone and tablets and cameras. > but they're not big sellers All that means is that apple does better in that particular market. > and heavily subsidized and sold at or below cost. Bullshit. > google makes money from advertising revenue > from those who buy the nexus phones. Google makes money from advertising revenue from those who buy any android phones and tablets and from many who buy iphones and ipads and ipods too. > apple's competitor in the mobile space is samsung. Apple's competitors in the mobile space is everyone who makes more than just low end phones and tablets.