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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by arcticbull on Thursday August 26, 2021 @06:30AM (#28312981)
My digging indicates that Apple has 1.65B active devices as of Q1 2021. The vast majority (1B) are iPhone users, and I suspect the vast majority of iOS users use Safari.

Sounds like Google is getting a pretty good deal.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by EE84M3i on Thursday August 26, 2021 @11:03AM (#28315840)
Google is not the default search engine in China.
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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by znpy on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:36AM (#28314150)
Every iPhone user is a safari user AFAIK.

AFAIK on iOS you cannot distribute an alternative browser (as in UI, network engine and rendering engine) --- you can only distribute what is essentially a skin over the default browser, Safari.

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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by twobitshifter on Thursday August 26, 2021 @08:45AM (#28314222)
But those skinned browsers can have a different default search engine
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Re:Google to pay Apple $15B to remain default Safari search ... by HWR_14 on Thursday August 26, 2021 @10:10AM (#28315191)
On iOS you have to use their JS virtual machine and their HTML5 renderer. I think you can write your on UI and possibly network engine (although that might be locked down as well, but you can definitely proxy all the results.
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