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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by elzbardico on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:23PM (#28317776)
Building a search engine is mundane compared to developing CPUs. It is a matter of brute work basically, an army of programmers. CPU design is a lot more sophisticated.
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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by sangnoir on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:32PM (#28317899)
> Building a search engine is mundane compared to developing CPUs

Not for Apple - they have hardware excellence in their DNA, but the web and internet services aren't a core competency (yet?). They have made huge strides from the disaster that was MobileMe, but they are nowhere close to where the Bing or Google search teams are.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by wedn3sday on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:55PM (#28318223)
> hardware excellence in their DNA

Yes, thats why my $4000 macbook pro keyboard inserts double keys strokes on 50% of key presses. The excellence must all be in the magic touchbar that periodically stops working so I cant even use vim because the ESC key is on a broken touch screen.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by sangnoir on Friday August 27, 2021 @09:40AM (#28327672)
...and that's their wheelhouse. Now imagine how much of a shitshow MobileMe really was.
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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by omegalulw on Thursday August 26, 2021 @01:28PM (#28317852)
Not really. The vast majority of CPU design is just logic in Verilog/VHDL, similar to software.
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