privacy-orientated search engine DuckDuckGo said its talks with Apple about a potential contract failed because the smartphone maker was reluctant to give up Google’s multibillion-dollar pay cheques, according to newly transcripts of a landmark antitrust trial of the Alphabet unit.of Google’s US$10-billion in annual payments to smartphone makers and others to keep its search engine as the default on computers or mobile devices.
App makers seek to be the default in their area, whether it be search or maps or anything else, because many users are unable or reluctant to change defaults.
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