Re:Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own
by JohnTHaller on Sunday June 15, 2014 @02:35PM
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It's a pretty common thing to happen on HN. You get it with Google Chrome, too, anytime you point out the fact that every character you type of every URL is sent to Google which doesn't happen in browsers like Firefox (it's the whole reason the search box is purposely kept separate, so only what you enter in the search box is sent to the search provider for auto-complete).
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Re:Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own
by chrisoverzero on Sunday June 15, 2014 @05:06PM
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I think it's more likely that people disagree with your literal reading of the original statement. The money that Apple makes from iAds doesn't matter – there's certainly no indication that it drives policy, which was the subject under discussion. Responding that it's not exactly zero doesn't add much to the discussion.
Re:Tim Cook, Making Apple His Own
by JohnTHaller on Sunday June 15, 2014 @06:16PM
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I tend to think that a (likely now) quarter of a billion dollars or more a year does matter. It matters less than iPhone/iPad revenue, of course... proportional to the money if not less-so (as in mattering less per dollar than iOS). But saying a quarter of a billion dollars a year in revenue doesn't matter and doesn't drive certain decision-making within any company is a bit naive.