Android gives Google a large number of devices where Google is the default search engine and (assuming we're talking about the "official version") always will be.
That's a big win - default search in the browser is something they and others pay a lot for and for (official) Android devices Google aren't paying that. The reason that they pay that money to others (including Apple) is that that's a way of serving and selling ads to the mobile platform.
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That's not true.
Android gives Google a large number of devices where Google is the default search engine and (assuming we're talking about the "official version") always will be.
That's a big win - default search in the browser is something they and others pay a lot for and for (official) Android devices Google aren't paying that. The reason that they pay that money to others (including Apple) is that that's a way of serving and selling ads to the mobile platform.