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Re:Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 alone for default status by flax on Thursday May 02, 2024 @12:07PM (#40237834)
why?

Is Microsoft going to pay 20B to put Bing there? Would Apple users accept that? (probably, they accept every other abuse). Is Apple going to set the default to something else for free?

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Re:Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 alone for default status by mcphage on Friday May 03, 2024 @03:03PM (#40251092)
To motivate Apple not to purchase or develop their own search engine. I'm sure they'd like to, but it would have to be so valuable to Apple to justify losing out on $20 billion per year.
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