Google Employee Claims That Android OEMs and Apple are Paid by the Company to Fight iOS

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Google has been facing a lot of heat. regarding its revenue-sharing agreement with various smartphone brands. The charges claim that the deals made by the company limit the competition from rival services. Now, a company employee has agreed that these agreements are actually there to help Android phones fight iOS.

Google employee Jamie Rosenberg testified in a company's defense during the ongoing antitrust trial. Based on a report, Rosenberg talked about how the company's revenue-sharing agreements with smartphone brands and carrier partners are there to provide resources to help Android OEMs fight iOS, its biggest competitor.

Google's deals show how the company is sharing search engine revenue with smartphone brands and carriers. Rosenberg also claimed that these payouts are there to help the partners prompt and maintain Android products and services.

Rosenberg also talked about how Google has changed its approach with the mobile networks in teh U.S. The search engine is still offering the revenue-sharing deal, but it also offers cash to companies so they can sell more Android devices.

Google also has a revenue-sharing agreement with Samsung, and this spanned over three different deals in 2020. The deals focused on search, services, and marketing. Rosenberg also confirmed that the latter agreement was contingent on the search engine giant getting the position of the default search provider. Again, the purpose of these deals and agreements is to fight iOS.

What's more interesting is that aside from Google paying carriers and other Android OEMs to sell more devices, the company also pays Apple as part of these revenue-sharing deals, which makes this whole trial a lot more interesting.

Last but not least, Rosenberg confirmed