Google pays Apple $18B to $20B a year to keep its search in iPhone

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• kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Xylight@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google created Android

    I thought they bought it. Was it some ex google engineer that made it or something?

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    • kadu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That is a lot of money for a search engine that barely works.

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  • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It barely works because it makes a lot of money

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    • foggy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, no. It makes aot of money because it barely works!

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    • cjsolx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But that’s how it’s supposed to work, so it’s working just fine? Amazing, actually.

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  • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They make it work poorly so you’re more likely to click on the ads. True story.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Suddenly I don’t feel at all ashamed of blocking ads. 😮

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  • synceDD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You never were freeloader lmao

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• ogeist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Won’t this kill Firefox? As far as I understand Google is providing a lot of funding with the default search engine agreement.

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  • raptir@lemdro.id ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It would definitely require a substantial effort for Mozilla to find other funding. If I were Mozilla right now I would be trying to secure other deals to act as a safety net if this ruling goes through.

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    • AtmaJnana@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It basically already has killed Firefox though. It’s just taking a long time to die. Have a look at their market share over the last decade. Hopefully enough people keep using it that it stays actively developed, but that’s hardly guaranteed.

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• BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Where’s my ‘invisible hand of the free market’ guys?

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  • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s literally it though

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• dependencyInjection@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Really shows how much can be made from handling search queries doesn’t it.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hell, I’ll spread word of mouth $75,000 a year.

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  • SmoothIsFast@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Welcome to a mid level sales position.

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• Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee ⁨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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  • ours@lemmy.film ⁨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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    • Tick_Dracy@lemm.ee ⁨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.

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• Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why?

  How would iPhone users feel if Google wasn’t available on their phone?

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