Apple seeks to defend Google’s multibillion-dollar default search payments

Apple has requested to participate in Google’s upcoming U.S. antitrust trial concerning online search. Apple stated it cannot depend on Google to adequately defend the revenue-sharing agreements that generate billions of dollars annually for Apple by making Google the default search engine on Safari.
Jody Godoy for Reuters:‎Apple does not plan to build its own search engine to compete with Alphabet’s Google, whether or not the payments continue, the company’s lawyers said