Google to pay Apple $1bn to be its default search engine

Dont you wonder why Apple allows Google to be the default search engine on its iOS devices? Surely, they could scupper their closest smartphone rival by...

February 13, 2013 / 14:25 IST

Don’t you wonder why Apple allows Google to be the default search engine on its iOS devices? Surely, they could scupper their closest smartphone rival by using some other search service. Of course, that would mean Apple foregoing close to $1 billion per year from Google. That’s how much a Morgan Stanley report estimates Google has to pay to Apple for the rights to have their search engine used in Apple’s iOS version of Spotlight.

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first published: Feb 13, 2013 01:49 pm

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