Google pays Apple to stay the default search engine on iPhones
Slides from an inner Apple presentation have been proven in Google’s antitrust trial, contrasting the 2 corporations’ very completely different approaches to privateness for purchasers.
Now, although, plainly Apple was not equally enamored of Google in each method. A slide deck has been proven in court docket of a 2013 Apple presentation that examines how privateness is used or abused throughout the business.
That was all Apple wrote on that individual slide, however among the many remainder of the presentation deck it gave extra element, and in addition quoted Google’s Eric Schmidt.
“Google’s coverage is to get proper as much as the creepy line however not cross it,” Schmidt reportedly stated in 2010. “I might argue that implanting issues in your mind is past the creepy line. No less than for the second, till the know-how will get higher.”
A lot of Apple’s presentation is redacted however among the many different slides that may be learn is a Privateness Timeline. It lists Fb’s monitoring of customers even when they decide out, and Google’s Avenue View recorded non-public Wi-Fi communications.
Presently, Google pays Apple to stay the default search engine on iPhones. Which will must cease if the DOJ wins its case, during which case Apple — which isn’t accused of any wrongdoing — might lose as a lot as $20 billion per yr.
