They already have a near-monopoly on desktop OSes, and these improvements you want aren't going to change that or improve the profits they get from the Windows business. There would be zero (or really negative) ROI for doing as you suggest here.

Why would they do this? It makes zero sense.

> I really wish they would have kept focus on Windows and taken the high road and made it better, more secure, more private There’s no guarantee Apple could meet or beat the threshold of being at least as good as Google, only that they could, technically, if they wanted to, develop their own, and then they would be the ones the DOJ is going after over the default search engine in Safari (not to mention the punks on the EC would probably find some new law to craft targeting Apple, so it had really better be worth the investment if they were ever going to build a search engine because the price for doing so is going up). Windows Live Search sucked before it, and MSN search before that. Plus Microsoft also has a lot of money and talent and have been in the search business a very long time.

They like to own and control the technologies core to their products, but even they have to draw a line otherwise they’d be building and running their own fabs. Apple has the resources to go into a lot of businesses they don’t necessarily want to be in and they seem happy enough with the Google arrangement.

For ios instal Space Punks