TIL Google pays Apple about $12 billion every year to make Google the default search engine and to disable YT videos from playing in the background. According to the DOJ lawsuit, this is 15-20% of Apple's global income.

I was trying to estimate the value of Brave browser and its associated token when I came across these articles about what Google pays Apple.2021 estimate of Google/Apple deal is actually $15 Billion per year:https://ift.tt/3jbTV2Y. 2020 US Department of Justice lawsuit:"In exchange for this privileged access to Apple’s massive consumer base, Google pays Apple billions of dollars in advertising revenue each year, with public estimates ranging around $8–12 billion. The revenues Google shares with Apple make up approximately 15–20 percent of Apple’s worldwide net income."https://ift.tt/3FZztfi summary of DOJ lawsuit: https://ift.tt/2Z4Aan5, Google also pays Firefox an estimated $400-450 Million per year, and Google's payment represents almost the entirety of Firefox's income. The Firefox user base has been steadily declining, losing about 1 million users per month over the last year, and it's approx. 200M user base currently represents an estimated 3.5% market share of the total browser market.https://ift.tt/3DL6XMw Browser added an average of 1.5 million users per month over the last year, doubling it's user base from 18M to 36M users. BAT currently has a market cap of just over $1B.https://ift.tt/3lPO0lS

Submitted October 18, 2021 at 02:35PM