Forgive the paraphrasing but:
> Apple should seek to use its monopoly power on iOS browsers to take greater search revenue
This couldn’t possibly end with large suits.
And after:
> Google are bad for privacy
This article is nuts.
I guess that a tiny percentage of users change any defaults; otherwise it's easy to change the default browser. Should it be a "Hello" option to change it, like your language? Google would not be pleased.
People need to be aware that the default browser is optional, and it's a dark pattern not to alert them to this. Having just reset the phone, I went through the Hello process. It's the only way, apparently, to fix "system memory" taking up the entire amount of free memory. Worked for me.
I wish it would be a lot easier to disable JavaScript on demand, but I just installed Sheriff (free, no payola for me) and will try. Disables JavaScript (and cookies) on a per-site basis.
I wonder how many users even know about the "spacebar trackpad".
If I'm reading this right:
- Apple should light $15b/yr on fire, so that they can:
- Build their own search engine, which will somehow be better than Google, and
- Monetise it even better than Google did, somehow
Wow I haven't read such a bad take in quite some time.
They should just buy Kagi and make it part of iCloud.
Apple should light $20 billion dollars a year on fire. I’m sure the shareholders will love that.
What a bad take, so Apple should not only forgo $15B revenue per year they should also spend a ton of resources to make their own search engine while providing a worse search experience to their users.