Michal Ždanský Google has been the default search engine in the Safari browser for many years, it has been in iPhones since its first generation, which, after all, was strongly linked to Google services, from Maps to YouTube. Apple gradually began to get rid of its ties to Google after the introduction of the Android operating system, the result of which was, for example, the removal of the pre-installed application YouTube or the creation of your own map service, which was mainly met with great criticism from users at the beginning.
According to an online journal The Information could Google lose another prominent position in iOS, namely in the Internet browser. In 2015, the eight-year contract under which Apple committed to set Google.com as the default search engine in Safari ends. For this privilege, Google paid Apple an amount of about one billion dollars annually, but getting rid of the influence of its rival is obviously much more valuable to Apple. Bing or Yahoo could appear instead of Google as the default search engine.
Microsoft's Bing search engine has been used by Apple for a long time. For example, Siri takes the results from it, in Yosemite, Bing is again integrated into Spotlight, where it replaced Google without the option to change back. Yahoo, on the other hand, supplies stock market data to Apple's Stocks app and previously also provided weather information. As far as browsers are concerned, Yahoo has already succeeded with Firefox, where it replaced Google, which had been the default search engine for Mozilla's Internet browser for a long time.
Changing the default search engine in the browser will not represent a fundamental change for users, they will always be able to return Google back to the previous position, just as they can now choose alternative search engines (Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo). Apple probably won't remove Google from the menu completely, but some users simply won't bother to change their default search engine back, especially if Bing is good enough for them, thereby losing Google some of its influence and ad revenue on iOS.
Browsers? You probably mean the search engine.
but I can only find it if he...well, mainly to change the word to google
I guess so, I tried bing a few times and immediately went away ..
Awww maaaan. So I can definitely change it. But like having something other than google is so... clumsy and especially at 3,1459
Hmm, at the moment I would like them to finally fix the problem with the search on the page, where the "roots" of words are not being searched for me (bugreport a month and a half old) ... Although it seems to me that although they praised javaScript in Yosemite, WebKit is under much slower with him...
I still wouldn't mind this too much if it can be set back in a few clicks.
But other things bother me. I wanted to give safari a chance despite the fact that Apple has been coughing up a Windows version for quite some time now. Unfortunately I have to use both Windows at work and Mac at home. Even though the synchronization of bookmarks between Google Chrome and Safari under Mac already works comfortably, I ran into quite serious problems and the fact that Safari can't display some things "correctly". For example, DSM from Synology is unusable under Safari. Everything else could already be changed with the help of accessories. that is, except for the display of favicon on tabs in the browser and the impossibility of displaying a bookmark without a label, only using a favicon.
So I still have the only multi-platform option left, and that is Google chrome, which works exactly the same on all platforms and to my full satisfaction.
But it's a shame.
DSM Synology runs perfectly fine for me, what's your problem?
So, despite all the criticism, breaking away from Google in maps, Apple succeeded. But search engines other than Google are still unusable here
I don't know, sometimes I try Apple maps, but they still don't have many conveniences, such as restaurant addresses, reference numbers, etc. I'm not saying it won't get better, but for me to be able to finally break away from Google maps, Apple still lacks a lot...
Google maps are top. I rather wanted to compare in which area Apple advanced more. And for a Czech user, the maps are quite usable. But not search engines
Ah, thanks for the explanation, that's not how I understood it :(