Bernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case
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
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.