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by miohtama 874 days ago
Because Google pays Apple $20B a year to be the default search engine of the default browser. It's a lot of money.

Also new EU roles force Apple to have other browser engines.

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And when lots of people choose Chrome and Google is the default is that a win?

I’d argue a massive step forward and back. People should be able to choose. I want to choose a different search engine than Google or the others, and I want Firefox too here in the US. Chrome as the dominant browser comes with its own issues.

You can have Firefox as the browser and then the bribe would go to Mozilla. But in this case, Apple and Google would not let anyone to choose really.