Apple and Google used to be friends. More than friends in fact. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt used to be on Apple’s board and even appeared on stage at the launch of the iPhone in 2007.
If you are an Apple fan, you probably already know this, and you know that today, Google and Apple are fierce rivals. One of the biggest areas of contention is the Google Android ecosystem, which late Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed had ripped off the iPhone entirely, and caused the initial rift between the two Silicon Valley giants.
And in Fact, while everyone talks about the Apple Facebook privacy battle, the iPhone maker is also directly targeting Google with its ads and largely successful privacy stance.
Apple and Google famously compete across the mobile ecosystem, with Android and iOS, and in the browser market with Chrome and Safari. Now Apple Maps is acceptable, it competes with Google Maps, and of course Gmail and Apple Mail are rivals too.
One thing Apple has always been without is a search engine, and you may, or may not know that the default search engine on Apple’s Safari browser is Google. That means every time you search anything on your iPhone, including via the Siri voice assistant, you go through Google by default. That deal is worth a huge amount of money, and it’s growing.
Analysts at Bernstein predict the payment from Google to the iPhone maker could surge to $15 billion this year, from $10 billion in 2020, 9to5Mac reports. As Google tries to outbid Microsoft for the...
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