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
That is a lot of money for a search engine that barely works.
It barely works because it makes a lot of money
But that’s how it’s supposed to work, so it’s working just fine? Amazing, actually.
That’s what they need to pay to get people to use it.
When Google was released in the 90’s they didn’t have to pay anyone, everyone wanted to use it.
Suddenly I don’t feel at all ashamed of blocking ads. 😮
Really shows how much can be made from handling search queries doesn’t it.
Where’s my ‘invisible hand of the free market’ guys?
That’s literally it though
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.
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.
Why?
How would iPhone users feel if Google wasn’t available on their phone?
