Google paid Apple $1B to be default iPhone search engine; Android profits revealed, too

Court documents show that Google paid Apple a $1 billion fee in 2014 in order to remain the default search engine on the iPhone, a report from Bloomberg noted yesterday.
The revelation came in the form of a hearing transcript that took place earlier this month, part of an Oracle lawsuit against Google that alleges the search giant violated copyright law in its use of Java to develop the Android mobile operating system.
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