avidthinker

Now if only Eddy Cue could present the networks an offer which they can't refuse...

C'mon, Hollywood...most people don't give a shit about the majority of channels in the standard cable bundle.  Skinny bundle, users pick and choose the channels they want in their bundle and Apple will sort out how you asshats get paid.  Not that hard.  Most of your channels are garbage anyways, just shutter the ones no one is into.

Whatever...if you're like me and don't particularly care for Google products, just change your defaults to DDG or Bing (barf!).  But as a diehard Apple shareholder, I will gladly take Alphabet's money to the bank just for rights to the default setting.  Maybe Apple should renegotiate and take an even more onerous cut.  The Goog needs iOS more than the other way around.