Closed-door dealings between Apple and Google are under scrutiny at an antitrust trial in Washington, as senior Apple executives take the stand.
Apple CEO Tim Cook leaves the House of Representatives in D.C. this month. Washington Post photo by Jabin Botsford
“Our vision is that we work as if we are one company,” a senior Apple employee wrote a Google counterpart in a 2018 email, cited in the Justice Department complaint. “Making it easier for people to get the products they want benefits consumers and is supported by American antitrust law,” he wrote. “In sum, people don’t use Google because they have to - they use it because they want to.”
“Google is paying billions of dollars to Apple to have that privileged status,” she said. “Any competitor to Google would also want access.”
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