NYT article about Apple's $8B/year contract with Google

[BootsWalking]

"In fact, Mr. Cook and Mr. Pichai met again in 2018 to discuss how they could increase revenue from search. After the meeting, a senior Apple employee wrote to a Google counterpart that “our vision is that we work as if we are one company,” according to the Justice Department’s complaint."

Doesn't quite jibe with Cook's public barbs at how Google makes money by profiting from privacy and Apple doesn't. I guess it's ok to collect billions profiting from privacy when someone else does the dirty work for you.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html

 

[0128672]

You'll find a whole discussion about this here:

Google Reportedly Pays Apple $8-12 Billion Per Year to be Default iOS Search Engine

The United States Justice Department is targeting a lucrative deal between Apple and Google as part of one of the U.S. government's largest...

www.macrumors.com

 

[Blue Quark]

"In fact, Mr. Cook and Mr. Pichai met again in 2018 to discuss how they could increase revenue from search. After the meeting, a senior Apple employee wrote to a Google counterpart that “our vision is that we work as if we are one company,” according to the Justice Department’s complaint."

Doesn't quite jibe with Cook's public barbs at how Google makes money by profiting from privacy and Apple doesn't. I guess it's ok to collect billions profiting from privacy when someone else does the dirty work for you.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/25/technology/apple-google-search-antitrust.html

Anyone who doesn't understand that, with exceedingly few exceptions, it's "all about the money" is incredibly naive. Not that I'm a fan of the present U.S. government, but I do believe we need to reign in Corporate America, and probably break up a few companies because of how they've used their success.

If it weren't for government oversight and regulation, corporations would have absolutely run roughshod over the citizenry for the last century and a half. As it is, we're still being ill-used, but at least we still have the fundamental capability to do something about it.

In a way, Apple is almost extorting Google, but I'm willing to bet there is a lot more going on out there than we know.

 

[I7guy]

Of course it's about the money, but that doesn't mean that anything illegal was done. Or that Apple handed google a database of it's users with all personal information attached, as has been alleged in this very same discussion going back a few years.

 

[Weaselboy]

Moderator Note:

Please continue the discussion in the news thread:

Google Reportedly Pays Apple $8-12 Billion Per Year to be Default iOS Search Engine

The United States Justice Department is targeting a lucrative deal between Apple and Google as part of one of the U.S. government's largest...

www.macrumors.com