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by IncreasePosts 775 days ago
Yes - all $20B isn't pure profit. It must take 25% of an engineers time to maintain the search box in safari. So lets say it is only $19,999,899,999 in profits.
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Your math is off. They have to pay the engineers whether it’s towards Google or Microsoft. Those $20B are pure profit
No, if they deleted the search box and didn't need to maintain it, there would be no engineer required to maintain it.
Makes zero sense. No search box will ever be dropped. If it’s not Google it’s Microsoft or Apple.