Apple building search engine to take on Google, report claims

Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by ceejayoz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:08AM (#24918270)

edit: I misread a thing.

Apple made over a quarter trillion dollars in profits in 2019 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/267728/apples-net-income...), and gets somewhere around $10B from Google. (https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/21/apple-services-success-story...)

They can certainly afford to ditch the partnership.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by iMark on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:11AM (#24918303)

That was pre-tax income. Apple's profit for 2019 was $55 billion.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by ceejayoz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:20AM (#24918383)

You're right. Ack.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:11AM (#24918894)

Given which, it's interesting this was announced now - just in time to conveniently give Google a hotline to a "See! Not really a monopoly!" defence.

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by gbil on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:12AM (#24918316)

I believe you confuse revenue with profit

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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by addicted on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:12AM (#24918312)

How much money would ads that are broadly targeted (city, gender, age bracket) like Google used to, be able to make relative to the uber personalized Google/Favebook ads?

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