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"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+(OP)
> Simply buying the market in the open…

This is slightly hyperbolic. Google is buying a default¹. It can be changed.

https://appletoolbox.com/change-default-search-engine-iphone...

>>Charle+e6
Choose from their payola based list of preferences. You can't chose any search engine like on other platforms.

>>fleddr+(OP)
> 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.

>>cma+ia
> You can't chose any search engine like on other platforms

With Safari, yes, but Firefox for iOS (for example) allows you to add arbitrary search engines.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-your-default-sea...

>>coryfk+Fi
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.

>>cma+ia
Or just install and use xSearch: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/xsearch-for-safari/id157990206...

>>coryfk+Fi
Yes, that's what I said: buying users.