Being the default search provider for\u00a0an operating system as big as iOS doesn\u2019t come cheap. According to a court transcript taken from the Google vs. Oracle lawsuit, Google paid Apple\u00a0a whopping $1 billion in 2014 to ensure it remained the\u00a0favorite\u00a0on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.<\/p>\n
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That\u2019s not all Apple gets, either; as part of the agreement, the Cupertino company also receives a share of Google\u2019s search revenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe search engine giant has an agreement with Apple that gives the iPhone maker a percentage of the revenue Google generates through the Apple device, an attorney for Oracle said at a Jan. 14 hearing in federal court,\u201d reports\u00a0Bloomberg.<\/em><\/p>\n Annette Hurst, the Oracle attorney who revealed the details of the agreement, said that the revenue split was 34 percent \u2014 but it\u2019s unclear whether this is the share\u00a0kept by Google, or the share paid to Apple. It seems most likely it would be the latter.<\/p>\n The intricacies of Apple\u2019s agreement with Google have been speculated for years. Apple\u00a0has dropped other Google services in iOS \u2014 such as Maps \u2014 but Google Search has always remained the default in Safari,\u00a0with users having the ability to change that manually themselves.<\/p>\n Bloomberg\u00a0<\/em>adds\u00a0that a Google attorney objected to this information being disclosed, and asked for it to be wiped from the the record. Google also stated in a January 20 filing that the terms of its agreement with Apple \u201care highly sensitive to both Google and Apple.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite this, the information still made its way out into the wild in the court transcripts, which have since been pulled.<\/p>\n