Google paid a million dollar figure to ensure that searches were made from an iPhone in place.
Jason Cipriani / CNET
Google had paid Apple $ 1,000 million for the company to keep the search bar on the iPhone, as reported on Friday Bloomberg.
Both According companies had kept this secret since 2014, because they considered it known that could be detrimental to future negotiations both to the interests of the two companies. The information through a trial that keep Google and Oracle where you met it emerged the convention.
This agreement would have signed the same year that Apple decided to stop including Google Maps into applications loaded on the device and made the failed launch of Apple Maps. It was 2014, a period in which both companies had to renew several joint contracts and the fact that iPhone users use the Google search engine seemed central to one of the largest Internet companies, that want to maintain their dominance in that scenario.
According to the source, this deal shows how far Google can go to maintain its dominance in search and prevent Yahoo and other companies to compete in this segment. But also makes clear how Apple benefits from a business model based on advertising such as Google, which Tim Cook, chief executive of the California company, has been one of the biggest critics due to the intrusion into privacy that this it mean.
Google tried that this information would not see the light at the courthouse in which was conducted the trial, trying to make the deal with Apple as sensitive information that was not included in the transcript of the case, and that way does not reach the public, but US District Judge William Alsup, the district of San Francisco, California, rejected the request.
This is one of the great technological agreements are not made public. In CNET in Spanish we have compiled the negotiations themselves were known worldwide in 2015, among which the purchase of Iusacell in Mexico by AT &. T or purchase of AOL by Verizon
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