What a bad take, so Apple should not only forgo $15B revenue per year they should also spend a ton of resources to make their own search engine while providing a worse search experience to their users.
It would be relatively easy to do better, for an org like Apple. It’s a no-brainer really with how awful google search has become. Easier than maps IMO and Apple has managed that.
It’s interesting that you continue to not read my comment. The first thing written there is “forgive the paraphrasing”. Indicating I am not directly quoting.
And the part of my comment you are referring to is entirely contextualised by the words preceding it.
I guess that a tiny percentage of users change any defaults; otherwise it's easy to change the default browser. Should it be a "Hello" option to change it, like your language? Google would not be pleased.
People need to be aware that the default browser is optional, and it's a dark pattern not to alert them to this. Having just reset the phone, I went through the Hello process. It's the only way, apparently, to fix "system memory" taking up the entire amount of free memory. Worked for me.
I wish it would be a lot easier to disable JavaScript on demand, but I just installed Sheriff (free, no payola for me) and will try. Disables JavaScript (and cookies) on a per-site basis.
I wonder how many users even know about the "spacebar trackpad".
You’re right it would hurt for a few quarters or even years, based on the typical (detrimental) stock market mindset, but it could be a great move mid to long term.