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They pay Apple like $12 billion a year to stay the default search engine in Safari. Not exactly free. If they didn‘t have Android they wouldn‘t have any leverag
by v7p1Qbt1im 7y ago
They pay Apple like $12 billion a year to stay the default search engine in Safari. Not exactly free. If they didn‘t have Android they wouldn‘t have any leverage at all in the mobile space.
- smt88 7y ago> If they didn‘t have Android they wouldn‘t have any leverage at all in the mobile space. I disagree. Most iPhone users seem to be Gmail users at least. Google Maps and Waze are far better than Apple Maps. I think Google itself originally pursued Android hoping for their own exclusive ecosystem and then changed their strategy to just build apps for iOS that are better than Apple's.