[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.