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		rchaud on March 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Apple announces ability to download apps directly ... Google pays Apple $19b to keep it as the default search engine on iOS Safari, so there will never be an iOS VM running Android.

asadotzler on March 13, 2024 [–]

that makes no sense. google owns android and the default browser on android and so they'd have all the same users using their search and saving some of that cash for any that switched to the Android VM. how is that a bad deal for google?

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