Lmao one of Google’s witnesses fucked up and leaked the exact percentage of Google’s revenue that it shares with Apple in exchange for default search enginge status, a number that has remained redacted up until now
I cannot stress enough that he DID NOT HAVE TO tell the world the Google shares
36
Goddamn
Percent
of its revenue with Apple in order to maintain default search engine status
Since we know that Google paid Apple $26.3 billion in 2021 to be the default search engine on Apple products, that means Google made 73 BILLION DOLL-HAIRS from its default placement agreement with Apple ALONE, which is more than 1/3 of its total search engine ad revenue, which as you can imagine is a huge part of its overall revenue
The same guy also tried to argue that monopolies are somehow good for competition. He didn’t even deny that Google has one. Said they should be allowed to expand it, even. You can’t make this shit up lmao
*slaps Adam Smith’s Wealth of nations on the table* MONOPOLIES! ARE! BAD! Heck, it means if you know that part alone, you are more qualified than that guy to lead Google!