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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by loceng on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:48AM (#15009516)
Would they though? I would and perhaps many on HN, though HN demographic isn't the norm.
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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by 27182818284 on Monday August 14, 2017 @11:54AM (#15009574)
Google undoubtedly has some metrics on this which is why they do it. Other firms are the same way, right? For example, Yahoo and Firefox.
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Re:Google is paying Apple billions per year to remain on the... by myusernameisok on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:27PM (#15010517)
Yes, I'm sure Google has analyzed this. I'm just saying it's fairly surprising considering that $3 billion hinges entirely on the assumption that people won't change the default. Apparently there are approximately 700 million active iPhones in the world [1], so Google is willing to bet $4 per user on that assumption. I'm not saying it's a bad assumption.

[1] http://www.siliconbeat.com/2017/03/06/many-iphones-use-analy...

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