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Title: Report: Google is the default iPhone search engine because it paid Apple $1 billion Post by: HCK on January 24, 2016, 03:00:15 am Report: Google is the default iPhone search engine because it paid Apple $1 billion
<article> <section class="page"> <p> Apple ditched Google Maps for its own native app in 2012, but the company is sticking with Google for the iPhone’s default search engine because Google pays Apple a ton of money for the privilege: $1 billion, to be exact.</p><p> That closely guarded sum was spilled in court transcripts from Java software maker Oracle’s lawsuit against Google, according to a Friday Bloomberg report (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-22/google-paid-apple-1-billion-to-keep-search-bar-on-iphone). Oracle claims Google used Java to build its Android operating system without paying, and has been fighting the company for damages since 2010. Now Oracle is airing all of Google’s business (http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generated-31-billion-revenue-google-oracle) for the world to see.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3025783/iphone-ipad/report-google-is-the-default-iphone-search-engine-because-it-paid-apple-1-billion.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: Report: Google is the default iPhone search engine because it paid Apple $1 billion (http://www.macworld.com/article/3025783/iphone-ipad/report-google-is-the-default-iphone-search-engine-because-it-paid-apple-1-billion.html#tk.rss_all) |