You want Apple to anonymize a users data, then hand that users data to a third party who knows who the user is? I don't think PCC is doing what you think it's doing.

Haha, it's literally the first sentence of the Wikipedia page. That's fucking funny. Try again.

If someone says they're using Deepseek, it's probably a safe bet that they're sending money to China. People choose an inferior model (Deepseek) because it's cheaper. Not many people are willing to use Deepseek but also pay the 5x price to have an American company run it for them.

Porsche sells about as many cars every year as Ferarri has sold in its entire existence. I'm not sure that's a strong indicator of whether or not it "brand" (AKA public perception) is doing well or not. Clearly Ferarri has a strong brand than Porsche, despite only selling 330,000 cars in the past 80 years. And despite Porsche selling 310,000 in 2024 alone.

Yes they have very different business models. But it would be like using "number of Window's licenses sold" to argue that Microsoft has a really strong brand right now.

"Selling" is not an issue that Ferrari has. Of course this thing will sell. They produce so few cars that every car they make will sell.

Whether it will help or hurt their brand in the long run is a much more interesting and important question.

In fact your example betrays you, because it would be like rewriting Linux from scratch while still attempting to maintain perfect compatibly with Linux. And then arguing that you've somehow weakened Linux in the process. Why not just fork it and maintain your own fork?

If Firefox and Apple can't rein in Google with their competing engines, what exactly does Ladybird change?

> I am 100% sure that it is all legal and such

Why are you so confident on either of these statements? Seems like such a weird thing to be confident about when we know so little about the deals that went down