Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone::Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case

  • Tick Dracy@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Even though I use iOS devices, Google isn’t my search engine on these devices. I can understand an organization like Mozilla needing the money from Google, but when we’re talking about a trillion dollar company, I cannot have the same understanding.

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      1 year ago

      Like corporations would pass on literally tens of billions of dollars (yearly) just because they are big.

      Unless Apple had it’s own competing search service they have no reason to pass on that much money unless it becomes a huge liability.

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        1 year ago

        I guess you’re right. And maybe most is their users are fine (or prefer) to use Google search, so that’s even a plus for Apple.