Overview

• Google pays approximately $18 billion annually to Apple for its search engine to be the default on Safari, preventing Apple from creating its own search engine.
• Google is exploring ways to use the EU Digital Markets Act to undermine Apple's default browser, Safari, and increase the number of Google Chrome users.
• Executives at Google have reportedly been strategizing how Google can have more access to data on the iPhone and seeking ways of reducing its reliance on Apple's Safari browser.
• Google plans to lobby EU regulators to crack the controlled ecosystem of Apple, which could triple the number of European iPhone users who choose Chrome as their default browser.
• The EU Digital Markets Act will compel Apple to allow more competition on their platform, which Google plans to exploit to siphon users from Safari and Spotlight.