Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line
Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20 billion search deal on the line
Shit, how much is Google spending on these deals??
The google annual cost to have Google as default search on iPhone is north of 20b, hence the number in the article headline. They also pay lots to Mozilla and others.
Yup, hundreds of millions to Mozilla.
Also why if this goes through Mozilla and Firefox will both be killed instantly. They're almost entirely funded by Google.
Mozilla could remain funded if they stopped doing things like paying the CEO seven million dollars per year while laying off employees. If Mozilla dies, it will 100% be because of corporate greed.
Mozilla could probably survive with no additional funding, but they'd have to make some steep cuts. They have many millions in investments, enough to fund something like $20M indefinitely. That's a lot lower than their current budget, but probably reasonable if they only needed to develop Firefox.
If Google funding is pulled entirely, they'll likely find a search deal (e.g. Bing, DDG, etc), but it'll be a lot less in royalties. However, if you look at their financials, they're already putting a lot of the Google money away into investments, so they can certainly survive some cuts, provided they can something in the ballpark of what Google was offering.
So assuming those are not long term deals they are probably over $30 billion now.
