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What are they getting from Apple, then? That’s the question that raises my anti-competitive fears. Presumably if Apple and Google wanted that question to be easily-answered they wouldn’t have written a secret deal.


The odds they got something instead of just getting bullied is far more likely.

My guess: Apple didn't compete with Google in some market with their ad platform.


Every answer to this question raises more questions not answered by the T-shirt. When two enormously powerful organizations are secretly cutting deals, the chance that somebody’s losing is very high.


Cash. Lots of cash. That lets Google grow in a softening market and compete with Facebook, etc.

It’s cheaper to pay Apple than to keep Android relevant. No different than Microsoft sending a firehos of cash to OpenAI.




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