Google paid Apple $1bn - plus a percentage - to remain default search app on iOS

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Apple drives a hard bargain - and a big, fat commission from Google

Google paid Apple $1bn in 2014 in order to remain the default search engine in Apple's iOS mobile operating system - and also pays a percentage of all revenues that it generates via Apple devices. ...

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