Re:I miss Windows Phone
by mattnewport on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:25AM
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That wouldn't be good, then I'd have to stop using DuckDuckGo. Avoiding Apple products is currently much easier than avoiding Google products (though after a concerted effort I'm now mostly managing that too) but if they bought DuckDuckGo I'd have to find another search engine.
Re:I miss Windows Phone
by matthewmacleod on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:46AM
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Why?
Re:I miss Windows Phone
by mattnewport on Saturday April 07, 2018 @11:55AM
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Why what? Why would I have to stop using DuckDuckGo? Because I don't use Apple products. Why don't I use Apple products? Many reasons.
I sort of agree with the other reply (that's dead now), if not with the way they said it. Your response provides next to no information. Maybe you could list some of the reasons why you don't use Apple products? "Many reasons" provides no insight, which is especially annoying because the parent comment to yours was explicitly asking for you to explain your reasoning.
Re:I miss Windows Phone
by mattnewport on Saturday April 07, 2018 @07:05PM
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All the obvious ones: closed platforms, walled gardens, lack of repair or upgradeability, overpriced hardware, general user and developer hostility, excessive secrecy, arrogance, security bugs, planned obsolescence. Then there's the more subjective stuff: I find their UIs appalling and I'm not a fan of their design aesthetic.
But how many of these would apply to DuckDuckGo under Apple? Are you saying that they'd wall it off to "Apple ecosystem users" only? There's no upgradeability or hardware or secrecy here.
Re:I miss Windows Phone
by bitmapbrother on Saturday April 07, 2018 @09:30PM
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>But what would really be neat is if they bought DuckDuckGo instead, made it the search engine of choice, and expanded on it's abilities.
So they should buy DDG and get back into the ad business? I'm sure that would play out well.
But what would really be neat is if they bought DuckDuckGo instead, made it the search engine of choice, and expanded on it's abilities. Apple has quite a lot of cash to throw at such a problem and DDG would line up nicely with their stance on privacy.
I wouldn't be surprised if they've given something like that serious consideration. Much the way Google tries to break Apple's grip on high-end smartphones, Apple probably wants to keep some leverage of their own.