Leave ddg out of your empires. It's one of the few reliable and trustworthy services I use daily. I guarantee apple will just ruin it and help google dominate in the process. Thesr analysts don't get why people use ddg!
I think people who use DDG don’t get it’s mostly just bing’s search API with better branding and privacy features.
Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it just makes DDG much more of a Microsoft acquisition target than an Apple one.
These so called “analysts” have no idea what they are talking about. Google pays Apple nearly $8 billion a year at this point to stay the default search on safari iOS.
Why would Apple throw away that free money to instead pay it back to Microsoft operating a business that can only be monetized by advertising?
I doubt search will ever be part of the Apple portfolio. Users won’t pay for it and Apple is not interested in becoming an ad network.
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