DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps

Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by jacobsenscott on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @08:50PM (#18917614)

I believe apple has ridden the hardware train about as far as it goes. There's no money in laptops and desktops anymore. The latest android phones are good enough. The "apple store experience" has become a dystopian nightmare compared to almost any other form of shopping. Constant pressure to increase earnings will inevitably force them to move a larger and larger percentage of their business to data and start striping away privacy features.

A real concern for privacy has only ever existed in the open source world, and google and apple have effectively crushed that threat.

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Re:DuckDuckGo will use Apple Maps by StudentStuff on Tuesday January 15, 2019 @11:22PM (#18918209)

Apple has nearly 1 billion iOS users and 70 million MacOS users. If Apple had invested more heavily in their MacOS ecosystem, rather than letting products like the Mac Pro rot for half a decade, they may have eaten at the marketshare of their competitors.

As is, many of the Mac diehards I know have migrated their kids off the platform in the past year or two, and some have made the leap themselves. Its a sea of change from just a few years ago.

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