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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by treis on Friday February 04, 2022 @09:38AM (#30207248)
Google doesn't really have apps though. Their users see ads through the browser and so, from what I understand, are unaffected by the change.
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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by falcolas on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:01AM (#30207570)
Not counting gmail, calendar, or the docs/drive suite, Google has >12 applications on the app store. Apple's "search" is pretty crappy WRT seeing what a dev has released (or at least the Google LLC "dev"), hence the range.

And ads definitely show up in YouTube and such.

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by treis on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:39AM (#30208158)
I didn't say they had no apps. I said they don't really have apps and they don't. Their main product is search and it's accessed through the browser.

If what FB is saying is true then the move by Apple helps Google. There's more or less two options for online advertising. So if companies spend less on FB then they're probably going to spend those dollars with Google

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by falcolas on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:54AM (#30208400)
I give you Google, the app:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google/id284815942

Google search, in an iOS app. Not everyone uses it, sure, but has over 341k reviews. Facebook, as a point of comparison, only has about 4x more reviews at 1.2M. 4x is a lot, but it's also a lot less than I'd expect over something primarily used in the browser.

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by reaperducer on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:04AM (#30207607)
Apple's "search" is pretty crappy WRT seeing what a dev has released

Click on the dev's name and it shows everything that dev has published.

https://apps.apple.com/us/developer/google-llc/id281956209

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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by falcolas on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:20AM (#30207841)
I did (on my phone, fwiw), and it only showed 12, and not their big ones.
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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by reaperducer on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:38AM (#30208151)
Perhaps because on your phone it shows only phone apps?
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Re:Apple's privacy push cost Meta $10B by falcolas on Friday February 04, 2022 @10:50AM (#30208328)
Well, it didn't show Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets, or Docs. All of which are Google apps available on the phone.
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