``The amount paid by Google to become the iPhone's default search engine'' is mentioned in an antitrust lawsuit and Apple's lawyer protests
In September 2023, a trial began in a lawsuit brought by a group of the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general over whether Google violates antitrust laws in the search engine market. In it, a Justice Department lawyer mentioned the amount Google paid Apple to be the default search engine on Apple devices such as iPhones and iPads, and Apple's lawyers objected.
Apple raises secrecy protest at day 2 of Google anti-monopoly trial - The Washington Post
Lawyer objects to claims about how much Google pays Apple
https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/14/how-much-google-pays-apple/
Google boasts overwhelming dominance in the search market, but in 2020 a group of the U.S. Department of Justice and state attorneys general filed a lawsuit claiming that ``Google is violating antitrust laws in the search engine market.'' I did . The Department of Justice and others have accused Google of illegally maintaining a monopoly and creating unfair barriers to entry for competitors through various practices.
A trial in this case was set for September 12, 2023 in the District Court for the United States of America in Washington. The trial is a bench trial in which the case is heard by a judge alone without a jury, and Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by then-President Barack Obama in 2014, is in charge.
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In his opening statement on the first day of the trial, Justice Department attorney Kenneth Dintzer said that Google would continue to be the default search engine for Apple devices, and that it would cost between $4 billion and $7 billion in 2020 (approximately $4,300 at the current rate). He said that he paid Apple between 100 million yen and 750 billion yen.
It has long been pointed out that Google has signed a contract to pay Apple a huge amount of money to protect its position as the default search engine for Apple devices. This arrangement is critical to Google's business because becoming the default search engine on devices widely used around the world means more advertising revenue for Google.
According to technology media 9to5Mac, the amount Google paid to Apple was $1 billion (approximately 100 billion yen at the time) in 2014 , and has gradually increased since then. In 2021, it is reported that Apple may pay $15 billion (approximately 1.65 trillion yen) to remain the default search engine.
However, while it is widely known that Google pays Apple to protect its position as the default search engine, the exact amount is not disclosed by either company. Apple has integrated the amount paid under the contract with Google into the ``services department'' so that the exact amount is unknown.
At the beginning of the second day of the trial, Apple's attorney Liang Travers protested about the Justice Department's attorney Dinzer's mention of undisclosed contract payments. Travers argues that the numbers cited by the Justice Department were 'misleading' to suggest they were leaked from Apple's confidential information and may have violated Apple's confidentiality rules. Google attorney John Schmidlein agreed, saying, ``Dinzer's statements give the public the impression that the numbers were revealed to us.''
In response to the outcry, Dinzer explained that the amounts mentioned on the first day were not confidential information provided by Google or Apple, but were based on outside sources. He explained that ``this part was missing,'' but did not provide any further information.
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