Eddy Cue is fighting to save Apple’s $20 billion paycheck from Google

Microsoft's Bing oregon DuckDuckGo astir apt won't disrupt Google's dominance successful search, said Apple elder vice president of services Eddy Cue - but AI services easy could.

Cue was returning to a courtroom successful Washington, DC wherever helium last testified successful the Justice Department's proceedings against Google's hunt monopoly successful September 2023. During the existent remedies proceedings connected Wednesday, Cue said that successful the clip since, well-funded generative AI upstarts person made specified important advancements that they could yet disrupt that monopoly - possibly much efficaciously than the tribunal could.

Cue was also, however, determination to support a important root of Apple's revenue: the payments Google offers for default hunt motor placement connected Apple's Safari browser.

After the 2023 trial, Judge Amit Mehta found that Google illegally monopolized the online hunt market, successful portion done agreements similar the Safari deal. For the past 2 and a fractional weeks, Google and the DOJ person pitched Mehta connected what helium should (or shouldn't) bash to hole the problem. The DOJ says Google should beryllium forced to share invaluable hunt information with competitors and rotation disconnected its Chrome browser, portion Google (which plans to entreaty the …

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