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Google pays $3 billion for default search on iOS, estimated to be bulk of Apple services business

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2017/08/google.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600&h=800)</div><p>Being the default search engine on iOS is highly lucrative for Google, with Apple’s devices predicted to account for approximately 50% of Google’s mobile search revenue. So much so that one financial firm estimates (https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billion-to-remain-default-search--bernstein.html) that Google will pay Apple $3 billion this year to remain the default.</p>
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