Google is in antitrust courtroom, combating to protect the search engine enterprise that has made it so traditionally profitable. At just a few totally different moments via the varied phases of the trial, high-powered executives from Apple have taken the stand — and largely taken Google’s facet. Simply this week, Apple’s Eddy Cue made the case that Google is definitely in a vastly aggressive market, is now not the unstoppable power it as soon as was, and ought to be largely left alone.
If it appears odd that Apple and Google can be aligned, right here’s a quantity to remember: 20,000,000,000. That’s what number of {dollars} Google pays Apple yearly, as a part of a revenue-sharing deal that makes Google the default search engine in Safari. Whilst Cue talks about Google searches going down in Safari, and the way AI would possibly cannibalize search and the iPhone and every part, it’s essential to maintain that $20 billion paycheck in thoughts.
Lastly, within the lightning spherical, it’s time for one more version of Brendan Carr is a Dummy. As a result of Brendan gonna Brendan. After that, we speak about the latest in robot lawnmowers, some new Netflix updates, and an important replace on celebration audio system.
If you wish to know extra about every part we talk about on this episode, listed here are some hyperlinks to get you began, first on antitrust issues:
And within the lightning spherical: