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Google still continues to pay Apple $20 billion a year to be the default search engine in Safari. What if they didn't?
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What would Apple do? Would iPhone users be cool with, "Oh, I just like typed in the search box to Google something and
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this other search engine came up." I don't think they'd care. Really? I really don't. I think there would be a
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lot of memes if it was Bing tomorrow. Bing has a lot of negative connotations for everybody. I think the biggest thing
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is if we're talking just like average person who has a phone, how many of them would know how to change the default
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search engine? They might literally be stuck. A lot of people still buy Microsoft computers and and they open up
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Edge to download Chrome. Apple could spin up a search engine and would have to announce it and explain it at some
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point and they could launch it and do a whole thing. My point is I think it would continue to be Google for quite a
