Apple's Search Engine Deal With Google Expected to Drive Services Revenue Growth Through 2022

[I7guy]

What Apple & Google are doing is reminiscent of when Microsoft edged out Netscape to protect their monopoly. If as you suggest most people would chose Google anyway why are Google paying them $12bn a year? Most people just accept the default without thinking

Don't think the two are related in anyway. The corporate behavior of Microsoft at that time, was below the belt.

 

[hot-gril]

If as you suggest most people would chose Google anyway why are Google paying them $12bn a year? Most people just accept the default without thinking

Because if the default were something else, even if most people manually switched to Google, it would probably cost Google more than $12B/y in lost revenue and intangible network effect from people who didn't switch.

 

[rp2011]

With their server infrastructure, I’m surprised Amazon hasn’t gotten in the game. They have a hand in every else.
What better way to drive traffic and gather customer data than to enter the search market.
“Alexa, get all the stuff. ..You know what I want’

 

[hot-gril]

With their server infrastructure, I’m surprised Amazon hasn’t gotten in the game. They have a hand in every else.
What better way to drive traffic and gather customer data than to enter the search market.
“Alexa, get all the stuff. ..You know what I want’

I'm surprised they haven't gotten into a lot of games. They could. I was holding AMZN stock anticipating for it for a while until I gave up when Bezos announced he was stepping down. The market hardly reacted to it, but it matters a lot to me whether the CEO of a company is the founder.