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Great news for the Swift community.
Apple says that open-sourcing Swift Build will encourage participation from the corporate sector, academia, and other open-source projects.
Swift's popularity should take off like a rocket for the awesome programming language that it is.

macxpress said:

Apple apparently cares about your Privacy, yet it continues to use Google as its default search engine. This is purely a financial decision only. 

Apple does care about your privacy, that's why you get prompted to allow certain things like cookies that lead to advertising or not.

In terms of financial decision, I am sure financial is a factor for Apple just like it is for others like Bing, DuckDuckGo and Yahoo.
If it was not a factor, the losing search engines would not be complaining to the DOJ.  They want to make money and keep all the profit 

People are free to use what ever search engine they want, but rest assured that Google search is superior by far than any other.
With new AI capabilities being introduced into Google search, it is blowing away the competition including Bing and DuckDuckGo.

Apple has the right to set the default to Google and users can change it if they want to, instead of letting carriers make deals to cripple Apple products.
For Apple to be forced to drop Google as the default would outright damage a lot of Apple products.
Many users don't know and don't care about switching search engine but they will buy Apple devices for the impeccable experience.

I think DuckDuckGo gives good results but I using it as the default is settling for inferior search results all the time.
It should not be  a crime to want to use the best and profit on the resulting popularity of your own hard-work at the same time?

Apple can certainly match and eventually overtake Qualcomm over time.
Apple bought a lot of patents from Intel and can innovate and integrate better than Qualcomm.
You don't see many Google map fans comparing with Apple Maps anymore do you?  Because they would lose.

Time will tell.

OMG... This Mac mini is going to sell like crazy.  Especially the Pro 
People who use them as servers must be doing flips now!