Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search
<i>Google studied how to pry open Apple’s control of the iPhone by leveraging a new European law intended to help small companies compete with Big Tech.</i><p><i>Last fall, Google executives met to discuss how to reduce the company’s reliance on Apple’s Safari browser and how best to use a new law in Europe to undermine the iPhone maker...</i><p><i>Google, which the law will force to allow more competition in search, explored ways to lobby E.U. regulators to crack open Apple’s tightly controlled software ecosystem so Google could siphon users from Safari and Spotlight...</i><p>Curious about HN&#x27;s stance on carrying Google&#x27;s water in these skirmishes advocating a forced dismantling of Apple&#x27;s vertical integration consumers continue to deliberately choose, in service of enabling the deepening of Google&#x27;s moat in collecting and profiling their (your) behavioral data exhaust in a way consumers don&#x27;t understand.<p>Stepping back...<p>I believe engineering should pay the <i>hard</i> price to make user use <i>easy</i>, and privacy easy.  I believe the hard work for achieving that ease makes users happy and engineers wealthy.<p>Apple should be allowed to benefit from the sweat they invested and sell a mobile console appliance, while others should be allowed to make build-your-own mobile compute.  Put another way, there&#x27;s room for an iPad Pro 13 and a Frame.work Laptop 13.  None of these should be forced to break their model to accommodate one of the others&#x27;.