In court filings filed in Washington on Monday, Apple’s attorneys stated that the corporation had no intention of developing its own search engine to rival Alphabet’s Google, regardless of the status of the payments. In 2022 alone, Apple reaped over $20 billion from its deal with Google.
Apple is planning to call witnesses for a trial in April. The prosecution’s goal is to demonstrate that Google has to sell its Chrome browser and maybe even its Android operating system in order to get search engine competition back on track.
“Google can no longer adequately represent Apple’s interests: Google must now defend against a broad effort to break up its business units,” according to Apple.
This historic action against Google by the Department of Justice has the potential to alter the way people search for information online.
Though it has not yet ended its arrangements to split ad revenue from search, Google has suggested easing its default agreements with browser developers, mobile device makers, and wireless carriers. On Tuesday, a Google representative declined to comment.