Google paid 1 billion dollars to Apple in 2014, the amount being identical to the one paid just a year before by the company from Mountain View to those from Cupertino, a sign that the agreement between them remained valid.
The billion dollars paid by Google to Apple was based on it an agreement that had the role of keeping Google as the default search engine of the Safari browser in iOS, so any kind of search made by users in the address bar of the application will direct users to Google.com.
The information regarding the agreement between Google and Apple was disclosed in a process between Google and Oracle, the amount of 1 billion dollars being a percentage of the receipts generated by the search engine for the Google company, so in 2015 it could have been higher or lower.
According to Oracle's lawyers, the amount would represent 34% of Google's revenues generated by searches made using Safari for iOS, so theoretically Apple takes a third of the money made by Google from iDevice users who use Google.com.
The revenue-sharing agreement reveals the lengths Google must go to keep people using its search tool on mobile devices. It also shows how Apple benefits financially from Google's advertising-based business model that Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has criticized as an intrusion of privacy.
Although in 2014 the company Yahoo! tried to convince Apple to replace Google with its search engine, considering that Google earns 4 times more money from iOS than from Android, it had every reason not to lose its position in Safari now.
The interesting part of this information is that it confirms how hypocritical the Apple company is because it criticizes Google's advertising system from all corners, so it makes a lot of money from it, asking the judge presiding over the case to make the information about the money earned non-public from Google.
Having said that, Google earns a lot of money from iOS, but Apple also earns a portion of Google's revenue.
