in a perfect world, when it is the better search engine, and they didn't cheat then i'd say do nothing. they did no wrong so why even ask this question?
Look at it like this, how many wanted the Playstation 3 when it was cool, then factor in how many people bought that at launch vs the ps2 at launch. Actual market share matter more then opinions on what's cool.
Teenagers might think they want an iPhone, but not everyone has the money for one and paying the bills. Whether they could make life changes to make more money is debatable, but the fact remains that not everyone does have $1000 to throw at a phone.
Because of this, the cheaper yet surprisingly still usable alternative, android has the larger marketshare. Since Google makes money on ads it's better for them to hand out more phones for cheap or in same cases for free, when a manufacturer makes a phone, when all those users see ads on YouTube and Google.
One thing to note, Lg has their own app store, they would bundle it on smartphones along with the playstore. I remember having a phone from them that did the bundling. Now I use Blu phones.
That is what I was wondering. But at the same time it isn't a tech news community it's a tech community. Although it could be considered spam for reposting this on the same community.
I think so, the reason why Linux isn't as successful even though it's free is because it is complex. With Windows, you just buy a windows. WIth apple you just buy a Mac.
with Nintendo, you just buy a Nintendo. With Linux, you gotta know how to hack your computer and you got to pick a distro. (i'm exaggerating a little on the hacking part, but that's how people see it.)
Or maybe we could get a centralised open sourced os that does not have anything to do with Linux, since that's being took over by Microsoft and other investors in the Linux foundation anyways that have been known to use Macs themselves. Just for the sake of simplicity and competition that actual works for people.
If you just simply make an operating system, that alone would increase competition. The thing is, people don't go to Linux when they do think of alternatives they go to mac, you need more commercial oses, that's why apple is number two on most used operating systems on PC.
I feel sorting top 6 hours would make more sense for me if I were sorting posts/coments within a community itself, because I would want the newest posts, but at that point I just defualt to new anyways.
But when searching for communities, personally i'm not for sorting it by hours or days because I want to make sure a community has an ok track record of being active, but at the same time i'm not wanting to keep a monopoly so that's why I don't go out of my way to sort the communities by top year or something like that because then we'd have another Google. I strive to strike a balence.
The thing to take from the whole situation with Google having to pay apple for defualt search that I feel not enough people are talking about is that Apple didn't lose anything but gained.
So of course they didn't care about the consequences for users. Apple never took any blame in media press either so they and Google both got away with it, with Google taking little stings from it it every now and then, and now finally it's catching up to Google in particular.
Not saying I blame apple as much as Google for making this step, but their greed is part of the problem too.
The question is why is it %36 instead of the 30% on the app stores for app developers. did apple get a little greedy about it? i'm surprised apple never raised the price further as a way of blackmailing Google, to keep its defualt search position on iPhones.
Just because competitors do exist, doesn't mean much. example: There are competitors to Youtube, yet they raise Youtube premium prices and go after ad blockers and get away with it. I assume it's ultamately to make money back from Youtube tv price hiles from disney content such as nfl. I do hope it's not just to rack in more cash just because they can, but that's another possibility too.
If Rumble raised their prices, they would go out of business, while Youtube would not be as heavily impacted. If it's determined in court to not be a monopoly, there's some kind of illegal behavior going on pottentially and that's what they are trying to figure out in court.
Why don't people make more commercial products too compete. No one seems to do that anymore. to be clear i'm talking make their own commercial operating system, their own PC, and smartphone lineup.
Come on Duckduckgo there's your chance to shine if you're really not just secretly a part of Microsoft in disguise.
I understand that too, as there are less users then mastodon, although I found the interaction to be pretty tolerable on lemmy in the comments on some of the communities i've joined, untill you get into more niche communities.
in a perfect world, when it is the better search engine, and they didn't cheat then i'd say do nothing. they did no wrong so why even ask this question?