So that’s why Google wants you to use Chrome on your iPhone so badly::Sundar Pichai’s Google pays Tim Cook’s Apple a whopping 36% of search revenue it gets when people use Safari — ouch.
And both Chrome and Safari, at least on iOS, are just reskins of one another.
I don’t get it. Chrome is not installed on any apple device and I can freely switch my search to DuckDuckGo and never have to use any google stuff ever in my life.
People are used to google as a search engine and depending on their search habits, it can still produce the best results. And for a while, Chrome was the best mainstream browser. People are used to that, too.
And, most importantly, most people don’t really care. They use what they have. That’s the only reason bing is still a thing. And also the reason Google pays billions to Apple just so they’re the standard search engine. For a little while, Siri‘s standard search was bing. But now, Google just pays better, I guess.
I personally use Safari on Apple devices and Firefox on everything else and DuckDuckGo on all of them but that’s not the best solution for everyone and be it only because it takes some amount of effort.
The thing to take from the whole situation with Google having to pay apple for defualt search that I feel not enough people are talking about is that Apple didn’t lose anything but gained. So of course they didn’t care about the consequences for users. Apple never took any blame in media press either so they and Google both got away with it, with Google taking little stings from it it every now and then, and now finally it’s catching up to Google in particular.
Not saying I blame apple as much as Google for making this step, but their greed is part of the problem too.
Google and Apple are both trash tier companies with zero respect for the human or their privacy.
And Samsung somehow manages to be worse than both of them.
I don’t get it. what did Samsung do that’s so much worse then degrading the internet search resualts?
Genuinely not sure where to even begin with this.
I would recommend looking at Samsung history as a company, from having the largest private militarized navy at one point to active influence on various countries politicians to allow them to continue to live like kings.
For a more thorough overview I would recommend https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2011/war-profiteer-month-samsung it’s a bit aged but covers a lot, would recommend following up on more recent shenanigans with the search terms “samsung human testing, samsung war technology division influence on global politics, samsung militarized private navy, Samsung aircraft carrier, Samsung support of genocide, Samsung and African warlords, Samsung and child slavery, Samsung and nestle projects, Samsung war crime, et al”
The question is why is it %36 instead of the 30% on the app stores for app developers. did apple get a little greedy about it? i’m surprised apple never raised the price further as a way of blackmailing Google, to keep its defualt search position on iPhones.
