iPhone TIPS: $100 Million a Year To Place a Tiny Searchbox in Mobile Safari

Q: How much does it cost you to put that tiny searchbox on your iPhone web browser? See photo inside the red square. A: $100 million a year! According to a source of businessinsider, Google pays that money annually to Apple to be on the iPhone. Also interesting is the deal of Google Maps on the iPhone. considering Google and Apple are more and more competitors considering of Google’s move to the Nexus One smartphone. Quoting  the words of that the write-up and the source: “when Apple first introduced the iPhone, it hammered out its deal for Google Maps in two weeks. When Apple prepared to launch the iPhone 3G with GPS a

year later, it was a six-month process “full of acrimony” to get the maps deal finished. Google wanted access to all sorts of notes from the maps, but Apple didn’t want to give it up, according to that person.”
How it works out with the next generation iPhone 4G and the new iPad is a big guess. possibly we are “BINGing” in stead of “GOOGling”…
via businessinsider
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