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Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by dmix »

They wouldn't pay it unless it made good business sense. And besides "just works" Apple wouldn't want to have to offer a subpar default search offering to their users. So it's always win-win.

Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by ngsayjoe »

I've been trying to run Adwords Universal Campaign on my iOS app, but Google just wouldn't drive any traffic to my iOS app while similar Android campaign works like a charm. Is Google trying to undermine Apple via its Search/Adwords monopoly here?

Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by steve19 »

dmix wrote: post #2

They wouldn't pay it unless it made good business sense. And besides "just works" Apple wouldn't want to have to offer a subpar default search offering to their users. So it's always win-win.

I suspect it's that they don't want to take the risk that not being front and center on Apple platforms could have on their business. Maybe droves Apple of users would jump ship to Bing... Or maybe they would jump ship to Android if Google Maps and Waze were pulled from the App Store.

Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by nullvoid1234 »

A big day for Apple is changing it's color on a phone with the same specs. Apple=consumer product(aka look at the jeans with the name brand)Google=business class. Microsoft=Smithsonian. Google just needs to step up there game and stop playing nice with Microsoft. Just sink there battleship already, they are always 10 years behind the times. Microsoft needs to put out books to figure out how to use the shit and Google is intuitive, no manual required. Mic drop.

Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by [deleted] »

steve19 wrote: post #4
dmix wrote: post #2

They wouldn't pay it unless it made good business sense. And besides "just works" Apple wouldn't want to have to offer a subpar default search offering to their users. So it's always win-win.

I suspect it's that they don't want to take the risk that not being front and center on Apple platforms could have on their business. Maybe droves Apple of users would jump ship to Bing... Or maybe they would jump ship to Android if Google Maps and Waze were pulled from the App Store.

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Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

ngsayjoe wrote: post #3

I've been trying to run Adwords Universal Campaign on my iOS app, but Google just wouldn't drive any traffic to my iOS app while similar Android campaign works like a charm. Is Google trying to undermine Apple via its Search/Adwords monopoly here?

Could you be bit more elaborate about your objective? Is it get your iOS app installs via Ads. More impressions/clicks on the ads, gets more money for Google, I don't see a reason for them to restrict that in any ways; in-fact the whole article is about it's importance.

Re: Google pays Apple $1B (or more)

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

ehsankia wrote: post #8

But doesn't Siri use Bing? So this is only for Safari? Isn't it a weird experience if one app uses Google for search and another uses Bing?

Not really, results are results. And they're usually pretty similar anyways. Also, consider that when searching with Siri, Apple is controlling the formatting of those results as well, so they will fit Apple's style, not Bing's.
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