There’s always been plenty of speculation around how much Google pays Apple to include its search services inside iOS devices, and we finally have some clarity over that figure. Information raised as part of an ongoing legal case between Oracle and Google shows the search firm compensated Apple to the tune of $1 billion in 2014.
As part of a five-year case against Google’s apparent use of Oracle’s Java technology, a court heard that “at one point in time the revenue share [between Apple and Google] was 34 percent,” according to a Bloomberg report. The specifics of that comment are unclear — we don’t know if that figure is what Google kept, or what it paid to Apple — but there does seem to be some truth behind it since both Apple and Google submitting filings to have the quote redacted and sealed from public view.
