In the antitrust trial between Google and the American courts, an Apple executive is expected to affirm under oath that Apple does not intend to create a search engine.
You may not know it, but currently in the United States, Google is at the heart of one of the biggest trials in American history involving Tech giants. The Department of Justice accuses him of having violate the anti-monopoly law through financial arrangements. These latter, passed with the smartphone manufacturers and the web browser developersprovide the search engine withbe presented by default to users.
This is not new. Already in 2018, Google is paying Apple $8.5 billion to be the basic search engine on iPhone and Mac. For the American government, it is impossible in this case to offer healthy competition where everyone has their place and their chances. He considers that this is an illegal maintenance of the monopoly. This year the arrangement between Google and Apple is believed to reach an astronomical sum of 19 billion dollars. Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, negotiated the deal. He is called to explain himself during the trial.
There will be no Apple search engine according to upcoming trial testimony
Sources close to the matter reveal in advance what Cue will say. First, that Apple chose Google as its search engine simply because it is “the best product”. This is also what Tim Cook, boss of the apple brand, said in 2018. He should also explain thatApple has no plans to develop its own search engine given that there is already Google, contrary to years of rumors suggesting the opposite.
Finally, Eddy Cue should also remind that Apple has financial agreements with other search engines like Microsoft Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo Or Ecosia, and that users can very well change the default one on the brand’s devices. The trial is scheduled to last 10 weeks. Google CEO Sundar Pichai is also expected to take the helm.
Source: CNBC