markbriton

fastasleep said:

markbriton said:

I tried switching to DDG as my default search engine on my iPhone earlier this year...

For those don’t know about the bang shortcuts, there are tons of the, of them, !yt for YouTube, !w for Wikipedia, etc:

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

I’ve never heard of this before, thanks!

I tried switching to DDG as my default search engine on my iPhone earlier this year and gave it a month. I really wanted to like it but I ended up going back to Google. I found DDG’s results to be very US focused and since I don’t live in the US a lot of the results weren’t relevant to me. I don’t use any of Google’s other services except YouTube and search. I really want DDG to get better so I can ditch Google for good, so I’m pleased they’re still improving. I’ll give them another try later in the year. I think Apple will end up snapping up DDG. It’s also a terrible name for a search engine, here’s hoping for Apple Search one day!

The completely unethical, state sponsored Korean chaebol chose to use Google’s free spyware as their OS; that was their biggest mistake. 

corrections said:

samian5747 said:

Ouch... I usually enjoy your articles, but this feels a little heavy handed (even for you)  and I’m not entirely sure it’s accurate.  
I’m unconvinced that Samsung/Apple reporting is as dramatically unbalanced as you seem to believe.

Ok here’s your turd sandwich. Read this and tell me it’s something that would have been written about Apple Watch if gen zero have been literally falling apart on day 2. 

https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/18/tech/samsung-galaxy-fold-breaking-debacle/index.html

And note the headline was euphemized into “Samsung Galaxy Fold phones are breaking. Here's why it doesn't matter”

boom

Wow, that really is a stunning article. “But risk travels hand in hand with innovation, and something that companies have learned to embrace. Very rarely does a first-generation product — especially something as hyped up as this one — live up to expectations." The expensive product  is literally unusable just a few hours after being purchased. I can’t think of any other company making any other product that would be given a free pass in this way. 

I love reading your angry scathing editorials! It’s no surprise to me that the tech press (which I stopped reading many years ago, present company excluded) continue to overly criticise Apple; they’ve done so since the 1990’s. They grew up hating Apple for allegedly being too expensive, closed and dictatorial. That’s understandable given that techie people like toys to tinker with and so it’s unlikely to change. What does fascinate me though are the numbers that you always present. The business / finance journalists really have no excuse for their misleading reporting. Keep up the good work. I’d love to read an editorial about Apple and the environment for Earth Day. How do Apple’s competitors compare on that front do you think?