Apple seeks to defend Google's billion-dollar payments in search case

Considering that the DOJ is going to come after Apple in the future probably after scoring win against Google and Amazon. I don't think this is a wise strategy by Apple to take this obvious side with monopoly position. And I hate that apple consider their hardware users as some belongings that they need to get money in order for others to reach them.

~Or Apple could remove Google Search as a choice on Safari<p>It could <i>remove Google as a choice</i> for users of safari? That seems like an insane thing to present as an approach apple might take. They could stop making it the default, but I think making it in unselectable actually would upset users enough to cause issues, at least in the short term.

I don&#x27;t recall the author, but the phrase comes to mind - &quot;like a vampire night watchman protecting the world&#x27;s last blood bank&quot;.

There&#x27;s not much there to disagree with. It&#x27;s pretty clear that Apple thinks they&#x27;d lose more than they&#x27;d gain by having their own search service. As it is, they don&#x27;t have to do anything except sign some documents and set a default URL and they make $20 Billion.<p>I wish my life was that uncomplicated.

If someone wrote you a check for a billion dollars every year. You’d defend them too.

Statement from Eddy Cue:<p>&quot;If this Court prohibits Google from sharing revenue for search distribution, Apple would have two unacceptable choices. It could still let users in the United States choose Google as a search engine for Safari, but Apple could not receive any share of the resulting revenue, so Google would obtain valuable access to Apple&#x27;s users at no cost. Or Apple could remove Google Search as a choice on Safari. But because customers prefer Google, removing it as an option would harm both Apple and its customers.&quot;<p>and &quot;... it is unlikely that Apple will decide to create a search engine in the future, regardless of what remedies are ordered in this case.&quot;<p>Source: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fingfx.thomsonreuters.com&#x2F;gfx&#x2F;legaldocs&#x2F;zgvoalybovd&#x2F;apple%20declaration.pdf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;fingfx.thomsonreuters.com&#x2F;gfx&#x2F;legaldocs&#x2F;zgvoalybovd&#x2F;...</a>