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: Jolly Roger Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,misc.phone.mobile.iphone Subject: Re: Safari - Google search deal expires soon. New default for Safari ... Date: 4 Feb 2015 12:52:16 GMT Organization: People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates Lines: 35 Message-ID: References: <010220151401050621%invid@loclanet.com> <201502011528166493-xxx@yyyzzz> <020220152024274000%michelle@michelle.org> <030220150932518483%nospam@nospam.invalid> <030220150958367701%michelle@michelle.org> <040220150048194122%nospam@nospam.invalid> <030220152334476105%michelle@michelle.org> X-Trace: individual.net 3r2eFhbmYeVsJNLWzkNjMQi6Jenj+gx9kOcKLCSGKAuPqnAKqV Cancel-Lock: sha1:kuN31OVMZsHgtGp4J0T9pDm+WLM= X-Face: _.g>n!a$f3/H3jA]>9pN55*5<`}Tud57>1Y%b|b-Y~()~\t,LZ3e up1/bO{=-) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Darwin) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:27672 On 2015-02-04, Michelle Steiner wrote: > In article <040220150048194122%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam > wrote: > >> > Android is one of Google's ways to increase its advertising revenues. >> > Therefore, it is in competition with iOS. >> >> nope. >> >> apple doesn't make money on advertising, other than a small amount from >> iads. >> >> two totally different business models. > > Business models don't count. The fact is that for every Android phone > sold, Apple loses an iPhone sale. No, that's definitely not true. Android is used on many crappy, cheap phones that don't even make up the market segments in which Apple competes. > Therefore, they're in competition. Somewhat. To a large extent, no. > You can rationalize against that forever, but you can't change the > facts, no matter how much you deny them. The "fact" you stated above is erroneous. -- E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my ravenous SPAM filter. I often ignore posts from Google. Use a real news client instead. JR