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>I'm sure Android at best only makes 10 bucks from their users with their current model throughout the device's entire lifetime.

I'm pretty sure Google pays Apple more than $10 per year per iPhone user to be the default search on iPhones and Mac. They were paying 18 billion back in 2021. I don't think Apple's marketshare is over 1.8 billion active users yet. Do you think Apple users are just that much more valuable to have searching?




According to [1] the estimated number of iPhone users (leaving out any Mac users) in 2024 is 1.46 billion.

[1] https://www.bankmycell.com/blog/number-of-iphone-users




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