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A comment on Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by alwillis on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:00AM (#25430872)
Apple gets on the order of $12 billion a year from Google to make Google Search the default search engine in iOS. All that money comes from ads.

It's a lot of money, but it's pocket change for Apple in the scheme of things—$220 billion in hardware revenue and a $2 trillion market cap.

Google needs to pay it far more than Apple needs the money. Google knows Apple customers are far more lucrative than Android customers.

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Re:Apple’s Anti-Tracking Plans for iPhone by pradn on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @12:09PM (#25432258)
Google needs it more since Google makes > $12 billion on that traffic, but I can't imagine any company being willing to part with $12+ billion a year.
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