The big difference here is that you had too buy either the Nokia or the iPhone.
Google is preinstalled on billions of phones for free, and this will not be changing anytime soon.
How are you going to get millions of old folk that dont care about Bing vs Google to change the default search engine on their smartphone if you are Bing?
Given Apple's stance on "privacy" I do not think this is fully true. If DuckDuckGo or another privacy focused vendor offered more cash than Google does, Apple would take it.
>> "Apple cares about experience just as much as money."
On the other hand, it's the perfect opportunity to put the 16 ML cores in my phone to work. Local Siri uses a generic model today, but I would use an Apple search engine if it could deliver genuinely personalized results instead of the SEO wasteland Google offers.
Google is preinstalled on billions of phones for free, and this will not be changing anytime soon.
How are you going to get millions of old folk that dont care about Bing vs Google to change the default search engine on their smartphone if you are Bing?