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It’s so funny how companies suddenly get mad with the deal they made when they don’t want to do it anymore.
Neither Google nor Apple is upset or trying to back out of this deal.
Nope. Apple gets their standard 30% cut of any business that happens on their products (which has its own antitrust case because it's nearly textbook monopoly rent seeking), and Google gets to simply pay a 30% cut to not really have to compete, which is also anticompetitive monopoly behavior.
I didn't originally think this case had legs, but the nonstop barrage of blatant evidence has me thinking the FTC might actually get a win here.
How exactly? Anyone sill has the right and option to change their default search engine on iPhone.
What is the alternative, a random search engine gets used each time you open Safari? the fuck man