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How Apple could slay Google at WWDC 2010

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6 pointsmascarenhas9 comments

This section should convince anyone this article is full of crud. Why would Google continue to pay Apple if Apple cut off some of Google's revenue?

"Google currently pays Apple hundreds of millions of dollars to capture the audience of Safari Mac and iPhone users performing search queries (just as it singlehandedly also supports Firefox development the same way). Apple could continue to get this revenue (because paid search ad placement is the most valuable thing to Google) while also stripping Google of its display advertising revenue via an ad-block plugin."

I can see a lot of folks just blocking Safari outright if Apple tried to pull this stunt...

That's exactly what I was thinking. As a producer of content, if a specific app is denying you an income, why would you not just block it.

Sure, you're turning away customers, but you're turning away customers that aren't paying.

Blocking would work for about five minutes, until someone releases a user agent spoofing plugin for Safari, just like the one that already exists on Firefox.

It exists under the Develop menu in Safari already. Also, there's no way Apple is going to do this, it's preposterous.

A lot of BS in this article, but one idea that I did find very interesting:

""" The big question here is: does Apple have the balls to revolutionize the web and return the world’s journalism and entertainment to a paid premium model (like magazines and books and newspapers and HBO) rather than an adware garbage model? """

Apple becoming a platform for micropayments for great content. Problem with this is that Google + Android could do the same thing.

Nothing to see here other than deranged fanboyism.

Apple and Google are having a good bout of competition in the market. This is generally good for everyone as they continue to try to one up each other on features and value. This is what we (consumers) want, not one company or the other engaging in anti-competitive dirty tricks.

Does anyone else thing Roughly Drafted is the most biased website around? I mean even John Gruber must read this and think "this guy is way too pro-Apple".

Entertaining reads on occassion, but they really read like fan fiction more than analyis.

Wow, that article was terrible. iAd is going to "slay Google"? Right. Apple is going to replace all internet ads with iAd content? This is a joke right?

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