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  • Google paid Apple $1 billion to be the default search on iOS

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    Timothy J. Seppala
    Timothy J. Seppala
    01.22.2016

    $1 billion. That's how much Google paid Apple in 2014 to be the default search app on the iPhone, according to court transcripts obtained by Bloomberg. As you might imagine, neither company is too happy about their business deal being made public, and as the publication notes, the court transcript "vanished without a trace" late yesterday. But whether that was because the court in the ongoing litigation between Google and Oracle eventually bowed to the whims of Cupertino and Mountain View's requests for redaction isn't clear.