blakecutler's comments

Don't see why not. Yandex in Russia and Baidu in China would be easy switches.

If you removed branding from the search engine results, I wonder how many users would notice or care that Apple switched to Bing. The quality difference is small: http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/08/which-search-engine-do-you-...

If there weren't realistic alternatives, Google wouldn't pay Apple ~$1B per year.

If Apple wants Google Maps in the app store, they could make it a condition in their next round of default search engine negotiations. Apple has all the leverage.