Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Alliance Just Got Stronger

Eddy Cue deserves a raise.

As nan executive overseeing Apple's services division, he's highly incentivized to protect nan tens of billions of dollars a twelvemonth that Google pays to beryllium nan default hunt motor successful Safari. "I've mislaid a batch of slumber reasoning astir it," he said from nan witnesser stand during Google's antitrust proceedings earlier this year.

Luckily for Cue, his tribunal grounds appears to person had a important effect connected Judge Amit Mehta, who ruled this week that Google's default payments to Apple and others tin continue. You tin spot Cue's arguments astatine proceedings mirrored successful Mehta's ruling: nan Apple SVP said it would beryllium "crazy" to punish th …

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