Ask HN: Should Apple also be a Search engine, ISP and Mobile carrier ?

3 points·auslander··4 comments

I, personally, would subscribe to all services, no matter the prices, given Apple's impeccable privacy and security record.

Try creating a device, that is uncrackable with physical access, like iPhone with iOS 12. They did it.

At $1T valuation, it should not create much financial stress for Apple. What do you think ?

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No. They should work to get Siri better and keep vertically integrating until they build all the chips for all their hardware. Imagine an A12 derived laptop with Apple T2 chips powering the storage and security etc. if, by some miracle, the telephone polls become free game and somehow Apple could put cell units on all of them and blanket the nation (if this is even feasible) then maybe. But mostly, no.

> until they build all the chips for all their hardware

I may be wrong, but I think they are on it as a first priority. I would've been :) I expect it to happen in, like, 3-4 years.

But to make a search engine, with all ML advancements in last years, should be totally feasible, right ? Make it a paid iCloud feature, to offset the running costs, I'm in.

Today my default in Bing. I use Google only for some specific queries, like exact phrase matches. All in private tabs.

Definitely. No matter how good or bad the result will be, competition is always good, especially in the toxic mobile carrier industry.

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