Apple is in an interesting position<p>A) Google already pays them $8 to $12 billion a year to have Google Search be the default search engine on Apple devices<p>B) The temptation that if they can build a very good search engine they can massively weaken their main enemy in mobile phones<p><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i>*<p>Apple should consider that Google stole the iPhone idea (when Eric Schmidt was on Board of Directors of Apple) and cloned it into Android<p>Google sooner or later will revert to such things<p>If Apple can build search and massively weaken Google it is a no brainer<p><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><i></i><p>Don't be like Bill Gates and when Apple was down instead of buying them or buying 40% in them, he played them as a 'look we have strong opponents' card in his anti trust case<p>If your enemy is showing you his neck, you should take it
I’ll believe it when the Applebot starts ramping up<p>I’ve seen Huawei and the Petal search bot almost as much as bingbot these last few months. Hardly any bot traffic from Apple though.<p>AppleBot: <a href="https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683" rel="nofollow">https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204683</a>