Tim Cook: I think Google search engine is the best

Apple CEO Tim Cook defends in an interview that his company makes Google the default search engine for the iPhone, for which Apple reportedly receives billions of dollars from Google. Cook does this because he believes there is no better alternative.

Tim Cook told HBO’s Axios that he thinks Google’s search engine is the best. He said this in response to a critical question as to whether Apple should take money from Google to make it the central search engine on iPhones, while Apple also often says it cares about the privacy of its users. protect its users.

In that context, Cook states that his company has set up many controls with its own Safari browser to protect privacy. For example, he points out that private browsing is possible and that ‘intelligent tracker prevention’ is present. He states that Apple helps users with their daily activities in all kinds of ways, but that the collaboration with Google is ‘not perfect’.

Bloomberg news agency in September put together a number of analysts’ estimates about how much money Apple gets from Google for setting Google as the default search engine. Estimates range from 3 to 9 billion dollars, although most estimates are based on 3 to 4 billion dollars per year.