Leaked: The crazy amount Google pays Apple to be the default iPhone search engine

[Wireless News]

In all of tech, there's no more valuable-piece of mobile real estate than the iPhone home screen. Now if we travel back in time just a few years, it's almost crazy to think that Google for a time enjoyed some primo-app placement on iOS with YouTube and Google Maps. The Apple/Google honeymoon, however, didn't last all that long, and effectively blew up once Google decided to go all-in with Android. The result? Steve Jobs lost his mind and famously threatened to go thermonuclear. In turn,-Apple steadily removing every Google app from its default set of iPhone apps. But there's one spot on the iPhone where Google still remains; the search bar in mobile Safari. DON'T MISS:-

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