Probably the same way Google feels paying billions to Apple for search traffic while Apple develops iOS, and the same way Apple feels paying billions to Google for models and compute to power Siri AI while Google develops Android, and the same way Netflix feels running everything on AWS while Amazon develops Prime Video, and...
The tech industry is highly interdependent. Each of these deals has been structured to be as mutually beneficial as possible - otherwise, the two parties wouldn't have agreed.
Re:Claude Meetings
by benjiwdubs on Friday November 13, 2026 @06:53PM
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Yeah short term you need to use it to keep up with your competitors.
Google paying Apple for search traffic is beneficial to both parties. Apple doesn’t spend money on a search engine and Google is front and center for customers.
What I’m describing would be more like Google paying Apple to kill the iPhone. Google search and gsuite are core parts of googles business model. Search doesn’t even exist on apples side of things. They are not comparable
Specifically I wonder how Google feels leasing TPUs to Anthropic while they're clearly developing enterprise office software to directly compete with Google.