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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by pradn on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @08:54AM (#25430280)
Apple gets on the order of $12 billion a year from Google to make Google Search the default search engine in iOS. All that money comes from ads. They care about privacy until it hits their pocketbook.
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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by alwillis on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:00AM (#25430872)
Apple gets on the order of $12 billion a year from Google to make Google Search the default search engine in iOS. All that money comes from ads.

It's a lot of money, but it's pocket change for Apple in the scheme of things—$220 billion in hardware revenue and a $2 trillion market cap.

Google needs to pay it far more than Apple needs the money. Google knows Apple customers are far more lucrative than Android customers.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by pradn on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:09PM (#25432258)
Google needs it more since Google makes > $12 billion on that traffic, but I can't imagine any company being willing to part with $12+ billion a year.
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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by thewebcount on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:47PM (#25433496)
That's a rich sentiment considering the article is written by Mozilla who gets the some money for the same purpose!
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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by pradn on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @01:54PM (#25433590)
Yes, that same hypocrisy applies to Mozilla. And it's been a total and unfortunate way to run a nonprofit - getting money from a direct competitor that wants to pay you as little as possible. The lower the browser market share, the worse their negotiating position got.

I wish they had come up with an alternate revenue stream.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by Laarlf on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:12AM (#25430437)
If I’m looking at HomeKit for example, this is not true.

Also people would want google anyway. After all it’s still the most useful search engine for almost everyone. Apple is primarily still a device maker for people who want stuff to justwerk and people who have no interest in tech.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by snarf21 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @09:42AM (#25430717)
And they will probably have to stop doing so very soon.
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