Google pays Apple $18B+ a year to keep its search in iPhone
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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

  • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    826·
    9 months ago

    Not surprising, Google created Android precisely because they were afraid of losing the “default search” spot on mobile. The Play Store, Play Services, tracking your location, those motivators came later. They quite openly stated this already. They saw the success of the iPhone and quickly adapted their mobile OS to also support touch, and the reason these mobile projects even existed was to try and stop Microsoft to succeed in mobile and therefore remove Google from the default search fields.

      • kadu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        183·
        9 months ago

        As far as I know, they bought the system with the goal of running it on mobile digital cameras and other consumer electronics (like music players).

        But when they saw the iPhone, the effort to convert this system into what we now see as Android was internal and made by Google.

        But I could’ve been fed wrong information though.