Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 alone for default status

https://nypost.com/2024/05/02/business/google-paid-apple-20b-in-2022-alone-for-default-status-docs/

by robblack • 2 years ago

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GiorgioG• 2 years ago

And it's worth every penny to Google. Apple users (in the US anyway) have more disposable income and advertisers will pay for those eyeballs.

drivingmenuts• 2 years ago

In my experience, Google actually is the best search engine, despite all the ads. Everything else, aside from Bing, is just regurgitating content sourced from Google and Bing, but making it slower, clunkier or turning it into a crypto scam.

panick21_• 2 years ago

I switch to DuckDuckGo by accident and was quite impressed. No idea where that stuff comes from. The new 'AI' based search engines are also useful for some things.

flax• 2 years ago

why?

Is Microsoft going to pay 20B to put Bing there? Would Apple users accept that? (probably, they accept every other abuse). Is Apple going to set the default to something else for free?

mcphage• 2 years ago

To motivate Apple not to purchase or develop their own search engine. I'm sure they'd like to, but it would have to be so valuable to Apple to justify losing out on $20 billion per year.

ChrisArchitect• 2 years ago

[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40230812

tryptophan• 2 years ago

Glad to do my part by switching over my entire family to DDG on apple devices.

pupppet• 2 years ago

What a shame. Apple is basically the only company with the resources to take on Google without needing to vacuum personal data.

talldayo3• 2 years ago

I will never understand how people on HN laud Apple's privacy efforts while keeping a constant blind-eye towards the blatant sale of user data, limitation of freedom, advertisement and gambling/gacha revenue.

At this point we should just accept that Apple is really not ideologically different from a normal, money-hungry business.

einsteinx22• 2 years ago

Any source on Apple selling user data?

Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 alone for default status

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