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How many billions does Google pay Apple to be the default search? How about email? Search > email, though I think they're both pillars.
by 2OEH8eoCRo0 4y ago
How many billions does Google pay Apple to be the default search? How about email?
Search > email, though I think they're both pillars.
- adastra22 4y agoThey don’t have to pay anyone to use Gmail. People prefer gmail and seek it out themselves.
- hericium 4y agoThey may be paying to be the first option in "choose your email provider" lists. Although Apple's Mail.app (both iOS and macOS) offers their own and Microsoft's services before Google's. For Google, the easiest way to gain new GMail users is to not deliver mail coming to existing users from 3rd party services or to throw it into trash/spam folders for no reason.
- petre 4y agoThat option should be standard unless Apple wants an DOJ/EU antitrust case against them.