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Google pays Apple $15 BILLION a year to make Google the default iOS search and to prevent MS from making Bing it
- Thread starter ManaByte
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TransTrender
Gold Member
LOL
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
HOLY FUCKING SHIT
Pagusas
Elden Member
Totally worth it for google, and if they ever stop paying Apple has 3 other companies lined up to pay to be it.
I’m honestly surprised Apple hasn’t tried entering the search engine space… but with that number it sounds like they are being paid not to.
I wonder how much they lost from google when they made Apple Maps the default map app?
I’m honestly surprised Apple hasn’t tried entering the search engine space… but with that number it sounds like they are being paid not to.
I wonder how much they lost from google when they made Apple Maps the default map app?
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I wonder if they regret that decision. Even on my iPhone, I find myself still using google maps, even though apple maps is clearly much better than it used to be.
I'm just not sure, from a business perspective, what they were thinking. It is not like Apple makes money on a search as you said, and a huge part of google maps' business appeal is how great it is integrating the entire google ecosystem.
Nobody_Important
“Aww, it’s so...average,” she said to him in a cold brick of passion
Meanwhile some people are trying to figure out how to feed themselves or their families. Others are trying to be able to afford going to the doctor.
There is a point where it is all just too much. I don't know where that point is though. I hope I don't live long enough to find out.
There is a point where it is all just too much. I don't know where that point is though. I hope I don't live long enough to find out.
TransTrender
Gold Member
I think we're already there....
...and we don't have much time to live
Trogdor1123
Gold Member
An easy thing to change thankfully.
TaylorSwiftFan
Member
I use DuckDuckGo. They’ve wasted $15 on me.
Disagree on vax mandates, but def agreed here. We live in an obscene society.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
this is why you tax corporations. if they were getting taxed properly, they wouldnt be wasting it on dumb shit like this.
I once read an article that showed how Samsung spends $10 billion in marketing every year. For example, Sony's entire profits this year were $12 billion.
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
For someone that was around back in the DOJ war on MS/IE I find this funny as shit. Apple deserves Google, it's a match made in corporate asshole valhalla.
Thesuffering79
Banned
They work well together.
BarringGaffner
Member
Ask Jeeves needs to make a better offer if they want to stay competitive.
DKehoe
Gold Member
Shit. I knew they paid a lot for it but I wouldn't have guessed anything close to that. I guess they have so much money lying around that it's burning a hole in their pocket.
Edit: Going by what Withnail says about it makes sense. Shows what I know about this stuff.
Edit: Going by what Withnail says about it makes sense. Shows what I know about this stuff.
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Bernd Lauert
Banned
Yep, this is a no brainer for Google. Why not spend 15 billion if you can make 50 billion?
Thirty7ven
Banned
Silicon Valley is a shit hole. MS, Google, Apple, all run by scum.
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this is the most simple business deal I've ever seen.
"Run by scum"
The fuck is wrong with you people?
QuantumZebra
Member
Takes like this just crack me up.
Do you know how business works? These companies provide jobs in multiple countries and have accelerated humanity's technological reach by vast amounts.
Any "big corp" is gonna have shitheads in it, just like the government. Doesn't mean they are all "scum".
Some people hate success.
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Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
What about Lycos?
Think percentage wise, Samsung is about 5% of revenue and Sony is about 3%. The key factor is that Samsung makes like 3x the revenue of Sony.
I am not sure how this number looks like the rest of the big companies
I do wonder if the Internet and some of the services that we have gotten used to works with a primarily paid service. All of the major email services are obviously ad-financed. Would I pay for NeoGAF?
Think there are a couple of things that need to be done in the ad-tech space mainly the breaking up of youtube and Google.
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ManaByte
Member
Hari Seldon
Member
This thread reminded me to switch. I already have on my PCs.
epicnemesis
Member
If I could profit directly from my data and choose which data ad companies have access to I would pay for every website I use and would still probably end up with some extra money at the end of the day.
Irobot82
Member
It's not necessarily even that.
Let's say Google makes $100 off me a month and to upkeep the services I use it's $10. That's $90 profit. Fuck you, give me $40.
I need to have a look into their margins, this shit gets alot more complex in the display advertising space. In search, it might be easier to do something like this.
Omega Supreme Holopsicon
Banned
The incredible thing is that in many cases people are making bank for trivial activities. I've heard in silicon valley some of the top employees took sick leave and simply stopped coming or working and they still got their big fat pay check while staying home and not even working remotely, or there was an article about that. There are people who do barely anything yet somehow or another are being paid big bucks.
At the same time even very low positions pay significantly more if you're in a big city, like you can make more than most even being a garbage pickup guy than working in a typical middle tier position outside the city(in NY there are 6 figure garbage pickup workers, and in California when benefits are taken in to account human feces pickup pays nearly $200K).
El Pistolero
Banned
Apple would have accepted less to spite Microsoft.