Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
by fatboy on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:10PM
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Their developer-facing web stuff is a daily tax on my mental health. I can't imagine how useless an Apple search engine would be.
Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
by martinald on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:10PM
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I think apple has quite a strong reliance on using their own tools and frameworks, which is fine for macOS and iOS as they are both mature, but on web they don't really have anything. The app store still seems to be running on webobjects (at least from URL structure), which hasn't been updated much in the past 10 years.
Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
by lucasmullens on Monday June 08, 2020 @07:06PM
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Apple doesn't have to own a search engine to use one in Siri. They could pay Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo to provide an API. Companies don't need to merge into one big monopoly to have synergy with each other.
Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
by yellow_postit on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:25PM
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This is what they do already to power the web results in Siri except the search companies pay Apple.
Re:Apple Should Buy a Search Engine, Analyst Says
by yellow_postit on Monday June 08, 2020 @08:24PM
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Speech Recognition is something I would be more concerned about. Amazon and Google with a decidedly more “liberal” stance on data collection have more raw material to train and validate models on.
However, Apple are really bad at executing on cloud services of any kind. With any amount of resources there are certain things that company just cannot get right, and search is definitely one of them. I would love to know what it is organizationally that makes them so terrible at web apps and cloud services.