Comment by AnimalMuppet
8 years ago
I think that Google was more worried about Microsoft dominating smartphones, not Apple. Microsoft would be tempted to use smartphone dominance to steer search traffic to Bing rather than Google.
8 years ago
I think that Google was more worried about Microsoft dominating smartphones, not Apple. Microsoft would be tempted to use smartphone dominance to steer search traffic to Bing rather than Google.
> I think that Google was more worried about Microsoft dominating smartphones, not Apple.
Maybe initially, before the iPhone. But the iPhone was the Dreadnaught of phones: everything that came before it became instantly irrelevant (look for HMS Dreadnaught).
> Microsoft would be tempted to use smartphone dominance to steer search traffic to Bing rather than Google.
Just as Apple would as well, unless Google pays, which it does.
Google also use to pay Mozilla Firefox millions. I don’t know if it still does.