> Well, they do load up Google as their default search provider

While that's true, a browser pretty much needs a default search engine, and Google is widely regarded as the best. I'm not sure that Apple could make a more customer-centric choice.

Really? The worst privacy suck of a search choice for all of their devices is a "customer-centric" choice?

They couldn't default to the least intrusive? Or rotate randomly amongst the options?

No. They couldn't. Rotating randomly is just about the most frustrating thing you can do to a user. Also forcing your users to use an unfamiliar search engine.

Remember, we're talking about people that Google "Facebook" to go to Facebook.

You seem to imply that Apple users are less bright than the general population.

Oh come on!

Yes Safari includes Google, Bing, Yahoo and DuckDuckGo as built-in search providers.

That is not the same thing as bundling Candy Crush Soda in the Dock. Hell Apple don't even include the free iWorks apps such as Pages and Numbers in a clean macOS install you have to go and get them via the Mac App Store.

Sure, because search is actually a feature people want. I don’t want one drive or candy crush or telemetry data and all those are harder to turn off then changing search to DuckDuckGo on MacOS or iOS.

> one drive

Mac OS does come with a fairly deep iCloud Drive integration, and iOS defaults to backing up photos and files then tries to upsell to a higher package when space runs out. It's only fairly recently that iOS shipped with a dedicated file manager, instead making you store any documents you have either in individual apps or on iCloud Drive.

To be fair, macOS asks once about the iCloud, and when told 'No', it respects the user and never asks again, and never puts anything iCloud related into users face.

People? I?

Well, yes, people DO in fact want candy crush.