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Apple gets ~$12 billion a year for making Google the default search engine on Safari. Apple's revenues in 2020 were $274.5 billion, so this counts to something
by pradn 6y ago
Apple gets ~$12 billion a year for making Google the default search engine on Safari. Apple's revenues in 2020 were $274.5 billion, so this counts to something like 8% of Apple revenues. 8% is either big enough not to discount in the final revenue calculation, or small enough that they can choose to hit Google with its revocation.
- prewett 6y agoWow, Apple's revenues put it #16 in revenues of countries, ahead of Mexico [0]. Although if Apple were a country, GDP would probably be a better measure; even so it's still around #45, depending who is evaluating GDP [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_government_budget https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
- ksec 6y agoI think it would be better to use Profits percentage than revenue. There are COGS and other running cost with Services. Even App Store has curation cost, processing fees, hosting, Store Credit Rebate, Promotion and Marketing. Search Engine Placement has literally Zero. It is pure 100% raw profit. Apple reported net income of 57.41 billion U.S. dollars in its 2020 fiscal year.