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>>samwil+(OP)
"Apple will reportedly receive 20 billion USD for having Google as the default search engine."

Now there's some easy money. Receiving 20 billion for doing absolutely nothing. To literally keeps things as-is. No product moved, no labor performed, no service provided. Just leave it. And we wire you 20 billion USD.

Simply buying the market in the open, without a care in the world. The things we let companies get away with. Astounding.

>>fleddr+ZO
> No product moved, no labor performed, no service provided.

That's a bit of a myopic view. Apple has invested billions in building a platform and user base, and that is what Google is buying.

>>coryfk+E71
If apple made a homegrown search engine it would be a genuine threat to Google because their diehard userbase would switch to it immediately. Besides that they also pay Firefox for the same. They are clearly just splashing cash to avoid having any sort of competition threaten them.