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Google Paid $1 Billion To Keep Search On iPhone (bloomberg.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

phantomfive writes: As the Google v. Oracle copyright case drags on, Oracle is claiming that Android has generated $31 billion in revenue for Google, $22 billion of which was profit. Court records also show Google paid Apple $1 billion USD to keep their search bar on the iPhone. A revenue sharing agreement was in place as well. At one point, Apple got 34% of the revenue generated by Google searches on iPhones. Both companies later requested that the information be redacted from the record, but once something is released on the internet, it tends to stay there.

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  1. Capitalism by The-Ixian · · Score: 4, Informative

    Company makes money and colludes with competitor to make more money.

    Nothing to see here; Working as intended.

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    1. Re:Capitalism by jellomizer · · Score: 4, Informative

      Well Google vs Apple vs Microsoft vs Oracle vs Samsung...
      Big companies that do a lot of things have complex relationship with each other. They have particular product lines that compete with each other, then they have other product lines that complement each other, where it is in their best interest to partner. Then there are products that uses the products of the other.

      Apple uses Googles Services which may be using Oracle's products and Samsung's components...
      and
      Samsung makes a product that competes with Apple which uses Googles Product's based on Oracle's Products...

      Depending on the product they are best partners or bitter rivals. Capitalism isn't about making friends, it isn't about making enemies. It is about making choices that will benefit you the most.
       

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    2. Re:Capitalism by macs4all · · Score: 3, Informative

      Apple felt compelled to release Apple Maps to reduce reliance on Google maps....

      BZZZT! WRONG!!! Thanks for playing...

      Nice revisionist history, there, buddy!

      Apple was FORCED to create Apple Maps because Google REFUSED to license their mapping API AT ANY COST to Apple for use with Apple's (then upcoming) Turn-by-Turn Navigation feature in iOS.

      In NO way did Apple WANT to go to the considerable trouble and expense to "map the planet" to the street-level; but they essentially had no choice if they wanted to provide turn-by-turn Navigation on the iPhone.

  2. Re:I am surprised by Overzeetop · · Score: 4, Informative

    You know, I've heard rumors of that. As an owner of a shiny new Surface, Cortana does Bing searches by default. I can say this with no reservation: Google searches, from within my Google account (I have my personal and business domain email managed in Apps accounts)*, is hands-down superior to Bing without the associated metadata. No amount of "this is the default" search engine is going to make me use an untrained/inferior search long enough to get 10 years of searching optimized.

    *If Google isn't customizing my searches, then it's just hands down better for the stuff I'm looking for, but I'm willing to give Bing the benefit of the doubt that it sucks simply because it doesn't know my history.

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  3. Re:I am surprised by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 5, Informative

    that Google is paying Apple at all.

    The summary sucks. The $1 billion was not a separate payment... it was Apple's cut of Google's iOS search revenue. And, also, it's apparently not defined in the testimony whether 34% was how much Apple keeps or how much Google gets to keep.

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