[ossyrial]

> Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it.

If this were true, Google could make the immediate and easy decision to increase their annual profits by $26 billion, by simply stopping to pay browser vendors to make Google the default search engine. https://untested.sonnet.io/Defaults+Matter%2C+Don't+Assume+C...

[throwaway48540]

Their need to buy advertising proves it is not a monopoly. If they were, they'd make that easy and profitable decision immediately.

[avidiax]

Google's payment to Apple isn't advertisement. It's to prevent Apple from rolling their own search engine, or selling the default to the next highest bidder.

[throwaway48540]

Putting their search in front of people instead of others is advertisement. It doesn't prevent apple from doing anything.

[dwaite]

Apple has a business agreement to use Google search, and it seems it is a similar agreement to what they made to OpenAI - we as Apple will use your service by default, we pay you nothing, and we take a percentage of your monetization.

[danielmarkbruce]

The person didn't say "all people choose it no matter what".

The statement is true as written.