[Eridrus]

Would they though?

It would be interesting to find out how many users switched back to Google after Yahoo paid Firefox to switch the default for new installs.

Apple would probably look at how much they could get from Bing for the privilege before building their own search engine.

[tyingq]

> It would be interesting to find out how many users switched back to Google after Yahoo paid Firefox to switch the default for new installs.

Many, but the net effect was still positive for Yahoo.

http://searchengineland.com/yahoos-firefox-deal-tells-us-pai...

[Eridrus]

Cool, so from Google's perspective this is probably an absolute best case scenario: Firefox users tend to be more savvy than iOS users, and Yahoo still claimed at least 25% of users.

So, 3bn is peanuts for 25% of mobile ad revenue, which for google is 50bn/yr.

Apple would probably have to raise the price several times over before Google starts questioning this relationship.