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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by simonh on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:02AM (#24919528)
They did exactly this when they ditched Google Maps, turning down billions of dollars in revenue, spending billions of dollars to build out their own service, simply to prevent Google harvesting Apple user location data.
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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by fauigerzigerk on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:37AM (#24919991)
I don't think Maps is anywhere near as profitable as search.
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Re:Apple building search engine to take on Google, report cl... by simonh on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @03:34PM (#24923170)
That’s true, but it doesn’t mean Apple won’t or can’t do the same thing with search as they did maps. Maybe they will, maybe they won’t, but they do have a track record of doing right by their users.

BTW their maps revenue from Google was a bigger share of total revenue when they gave it up than their search revenue is now.

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