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From: "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Safari - Google search deal expires soon.  New default for Safari ...
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 06:25:11 +1100
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"Jolly Roger" <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote in message 
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> On 2015-02-03, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> In article <020220152024274000%michelle@michelle.org>, Michelle Steiner
>><michelle@michelle.org> 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.
>>
>> google gives away android (and licenses it to some manufacturers).
>> apple doesn't give away ios
>>
>> google makes the majority of its revenue from advertising.
>> apple makes the majority of its revenue from iphone sales.
>>
>> google does sell nexus phones, but they're not big sellers and heavily
>> subsidized and sold at or below cost. google makes money from
>> advertising revenue from those who buy the nexus phones.
>>
>> apple's competitor in the mobile space is samsung.

> Yep.

Nope.

> The idea that Google is Apple's "main competitor"

No one ever said that.

> is laughable.

Having fun thrashing that straw man ?