I still remember when various competition regulators forced Microsoft to add an alert in Windows 7? Sight? to force users to choose for themselves a default internet browser for the system. And it is that in the end everything that comes by default is taken to most of the users ... Many of you will have tried an endless number of apps that do the same as native iOS apps, but that do it better, but the normal user it does not exit the apps by default. Without going any further, Google is the default search engine for iOS, they pay for it, and this is what is beginning to be worrying ... The body in charge of monitoring free competition in the United Kingdom has just spoken out about the concern that this agreement between Google and Apple. After the jump we tell you all the details ...
It is a worrying barrier to entry and expansion, this says the UK Competition and Markets Authority in a report published in Reuters. The relationship between Apple and Google (who was going to say it when at the software level they are the main competitors) is a problem that directly impacts search engines Bing from Microsoft, Yahoo from Verizon, and the independent DuckDuckGo. Apple does offer us the possibility to change the default search engine in the Safari settings, but Google's privilege is that it comes by default, and if we do not change it, we will always be using the well-known search engine.
And is that Google would have paid in 2019 a whopping 1.5 billion US dollars for Google to be the default search engine on devices from various platforms, only in the UK ... Personally I use Google, it is worth paying with our data, but in the end we are the ones who have to assess whether what it offers us is useful or not. And you, what search engine do you use?
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