Why Apple is trying to save Google

Google is successful antitrust court, warring to sphere the hunt motor concern that has made it truthful historically successful. At a fewer antithetic moments done the assorted stages of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple person taken the basal - and mostly taken Google's side. Just this week, Apple's Eddy Cue made the case that Google is really successful a hugely competitory market, is nary longer the unstoppable unit it erstwhile was, and should beryllium mostly near alone.

If it seems unusual that Apple and Google would beryllium aligned, here's a fig to support successful mind: 20,000,000,000. That's however galore dollars Google pays Apple each year, arsenic portion of a revenue-sharing woody that makes Google the default hunt motor successful Safari. Even arsenic Cue talks astir Google searches going down successful Safari, and however AI mightiness cannibalize search and the iPhone and everything, it's important to support that $20 cardinal paycheck successful mind.

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On this occurrence of The Vergecast, Nilay, David, and The Verge's Richard Lawler sermon Cue's testimony, what it means that Google searches are going down successful Safari, and whether the full "AI chat volition regenerate search" bladed …

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