Lawsuit filed alleging Google is paying Apple to stay out of the search business
<i>”The complaint claims that the means used to effectuate the non-compete agreement included; (1) Google would share it's search profits with Apple; (2) Apple would give preferential treatment to Google for all Apple devices; (3) regular secret meetings between the executives of both companies; (4) annual multi-billion-dollar payments by Google to Apple not to compete in the search business; (5) suppression of the competition of smaller competitors and foreclosing competitors from the search market; (6) acquiring actual and potential competitors.”</i><p>Except for #6, this is literally “Google pays Apple to be the default search provider.”<p>The alternative option seems to be that Apple is for some reason <i>required</i> to use their position to enter the search market.