Nah, I think during set up assistant that the OS should present options like that and then it's all good.
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U.S. Government Files Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google for Search Engine Dominance
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I get what you are saying but my original point was people will still pick google, so again from apple perspective why not get paid for it.
Oh yes, that's fine but at least give them the choice, you can't say fairer than that and then nobody can level accusations at them.
Sigh 😔: only thing I think google is violating is my right to privacy. Sure, they have market power, but only because the end user is their main product and makes them a lot of money from other companies who are also violating the end users privacy. I would rather they have to purge all the unnecessary end user data and not be allowed to sale any date that identifies me by name.
You're right, we should all just go back to horse and buggy, cars are too convenient.
Well you could also look at it as the fact that other search engines have dropped drastically in their market share over the last 5 years (fact) and this was caused by the anti-competitive behavior of Google.
You could also argue that this have a compounding impact. With other search engines getting less traffic, this is less data to improve your service.
Google is popular, yes. Google is the most popular, yes. But paying 7 billion dollars to wiggle out compeition is illegal because it's anti-competitive and it's created a monopoly. Burying your search engine options 3 levels deep in an obscure menu hurts consumer choice.
The better question isn't how many people would have picked Google anyways, the better question is how many people missed out on trying a non-Google search engine for the first time ever?
People still use Google search? I’ve used DDG for some time. Google as a fall back only.
Even though I am an Apple customer, I will not deny that I have been affected by the closed down hell that is the app store or the many anti consumer moves that apple does by making their devices impossible to repair.
Apple should be scared, but they arent, because as the many rabid white knights have shown us, they have fans that will turn a blind eye to these things, just because they worship Apple.
Its easier to change the search engine default and I havent experience any devices that blocked such things.
But the blocks that I get from apple are only fixable by abandoning all their hardware and even some of their software and services.
Death to the Goolag!
Actually, they need to break Chrome because as I heard Google makes their websites and services more compatible with Chrome and less with other browsers.
Its hard to say when something is a monopoly and when it needs to be broken down? Why can't we say the same about Apple and their ecosystem? Why not about Microsoft with their 85% marketshare of operating system worldwide? Why does a company gets punished for its success!?
Actually, they need to break Chrome because as I heard Google makes their websites and services more compatible with Chrome and less with other browsers.
Its hard to say when something is a monopoly and when it needs to be broken down? Why can't we say the same about Apple and their ecosystem? Why not about Microsoft with their 85% marketshare of operating system worldwide? Why does a company gets punished for its success!?
Actually if you haven't heard, its duckduckgo now.
Ok, and going by your suggestion, how do you suggest that Apple should be broken up?
It shouldn’t be. Plenty of healthy competition exists for all of Apple’s major products/services.
Or they just plain suck. Cream rises to the top.
Goes back to the first point.
That remains to be seen. However, it's like anything else, where highest bidder wins. And who is to say a majority of apple customers, do not have a problem of changing the defaults.
The real question is, do consumers choose google because the others suck and google is best?
You going to kill american innovation, because yahoo screwed itself and bing doesn't really compete? That's the american way.
Isn't Spotify groaning about Apple being a monopoly? Why Yes, Virginia they are.
Also if you compare to Google to cable TV which also controls the internet in many areas that arguments falls about. If this was truly about competition then why in the bloody blazes isn't the DOJ going after Comcast or AT&T which is a regional monopoly (by the purest definition of the word) in many areas?! ISPs Are Blocking Google Fiber's Access To Utility Poles In California
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If that was true then Apple couldn't be consider a monopoly and yet it was.
Isn't logic wonderful?
If Apple was underpricing all of the competition because of a their current vertical integration strategy, then yes it would be a monopoly. The fact that they are positioned as the top tier premium option with plenty of competing services outside of their ecosystem means that they will probably never see the type of legal action that Facebook, Amazon and Google should face.
Apple might be challenged to provide access WITHIN their ecosystem like what is going on with Epic, but that is completely different than declaring Apple a monopoly in general.
Amazon is the best+worst example of a vertical monopoly (integration). Free shipping is a massive change to the ecommerce market and they are only able to do that because they are willing to invest in an infrastructure which cannot and never will make money on its own. Amazon is all about the lowest price and making pennies on the entire transaction but making it impossible for anyone else to complete. They don't even have hosting costs as they handle that on their own (probably the largest investment for any software based company is fully subsidized by everyone else paying for hosting services).
As long as they aren't violating any laws (not just MR posters' sensibilities) what's the harm? IMO, I don't see any.
I get the strangest looks from young kids when I tell them what the 'weather channel' was like in my hometown, after we got cable.
Yeah, we had cable. No, dinosaurs did NOT roam the planet. Yeah, I had a TV in my bedroom. It was black and white, and I had to get up to change the channel.
The 'weather channel' was a camera setup on a mount that swung back and forth, looking at the foot wide gauges that showed REAL TIME what the weather was doing. Real time wind speed, real time wind direction, real time temperature.
Swinging back and forth.
It actually got stuck once, for several hours, before someone nudged it and got it moving again.
They even started putting poster board prints of sponsor logos and made the camera swing a little farther. It was 'rustic' by today's standards, but a hell of a lot more useful than the current multi-million dollar Weather Channel, and their puffed and preened 'talent' flashing their teeth, cleavage, and legs, to the TV audience. No, we didn't have 'Ice Road Truckers' back then, in the 'stone age'.
Those 'good old days' were pretty awesome, but I really like what technology has allowed to happen. (Well, not the screw job my company got from Dall and Best Buy, but...)
To the 'good old days', and I hope we don't end up back there, soon...
I already hate how many questions I need to answer during setup. People want me to spend my time picking search engines an App Stores during install? No.
My devices are set to DDG as default. I’d expect that the people who can’t find the setting are probably the people who just want a search engine that works.
Same here, but it’s worth recognizing that we use it as a fall back because it pretty much always works.
Instead of during install, how about the first time the app launches (Safari)?
I must have the only MacBook Pro that had Bing set as the default search engine out the gate on Mojave...