Eddy Cue gets mildly peppered in court with questions about Apple & Google's relationship

Apple's Eddy Cue has taken the stand in the court case between Google and the US government. Most of the interesting stuff was behind closed doors due to commercial sensitivities (boooo), but what was public is kinda interesting. The government argued that Apple's devotion to privacy is at odds at making Google the default search engine, in an attempt to prove that Apple doesn't pick the default browser based on what's best for its users like they vehemently claim, but because Google keeps dumping truckloads of cash (billions!) on Apple's doorstep. Cue's responses are evasive at best and said that they don't present an option to select your own search engine on device setup as "showing people a bunch of search engines they've never heard of would just be a bad user experience". Hmm, I wonder why they've never heard of them???


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