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		cyrusradfar 41 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple nears $1B Google deal for custom Gemini mode... Coincidentally, Google pays Apple over a billion dollars a year (est. at 1.5B) to be the default search in iOS. Could be re-titled. Google closes their trade deficit to half a billion dollars per year.

wilsonnb3 41 days ago [–]

It’s actually much more than that, $20 billion per year

cyrusradfar 39 days ago | [–]

WHAT -- just had to Google and you're absolutely right! Makes sense that time has moved forward.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/26/23933206/google-apple-se...

I'm still using numbers from a post I wrote in 2016

https://techcrunch.com/2016/07/24/apple-lays-the-groundwork-...

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