Quote from Ndubuisi Ekekwe on October 24, 2018, 8:39 PM

This is what it means to be a category-king business empire: Google will pay Apple $9 billion in 2018 and $12 billion in 2019 just to be default search engine across is platforms. Add extra $8 billion, you have 2019 Nigerian budget there, just for Apple.

Google will reportedly pay Apple $9 billion in 2018 and $12 billion in 2019 to remain as Safari’s default search engine, according to Business Insider. The report comes courtesy of Goldman Sachs analyst Rod Hall. It seems like a hefty price to pay, but with Safari being the default browser on iPhone, iPads, and Macs—and Google continuing to generate a great deal of revenue from its original search engine business—the Goldman Sachs report finds the payments to be a fraction of the money it ends up making