Yup. Its a strange situation, but basically Apple could fund development of Safari with iPhone sales, and as long as Google isnt too pushy about making web apps

Yup. Its a strange situation, but basically Apple could fund development of Safari with iPhone sales, and as long as Google isnt too pushy about making web apps threaten the App Store monopoly, apple will gladly take a cool extra billion dollars a year to make Google the default search engine. But Apple is not dependent on Google the way Chrome and Firefox are.