• by drexlspivey on 9/29/2023, 12:40:55 AM

    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.

  • by Affric on 9/29/2023, 12:42:57 AM

    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.

  • by k310 on 9/29/2023, 3:15:54 AM

    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".

  • by e63f67dd-065b on 9/29/2023, 3:10:51 AM

    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.

  • by daft_pink on 9/29/2023, 4:47:02 AM

    They should just buy Kagi and make it part of iCloud.

  • by 1270018080 on 9/29/2023, 1:30:55 AM

    Apple should light $20 billion dollars a year on fire. I’m sure the shareholders will love that.