The amount Google paid Apple to remain the default iOS search engine has long been notionally theorized about, but the companies have never publicly disclosed it. In fact, when the terms of the acquiescent popped up in the recent court proceeding, lawyers from both Apple and Google filed requests to seal and redact the transcript, citing potential damages to their respective businesses.
Annette Hurst, the Oracle attorney who disclosed details of the Google-Apple accedence at last week’s court auricularly discerning, verbalized a Google witness queried during pretrial information verbalized that “at one point in time the revenue share was 34 percent.” It wasn’t clear from the transcript whether that percentage is the amount of revenue kept by Google or paid to Apple.
An attorney for Google remonstrated to the information being disclosed and endeavored to have the judge strike the mention of 34 percent from the record. “That percentage just verbally expressed, that should be sealed,” lawyer Robert Van Nest verbalized, according to the transcript. “We are verbalizing hypotheticals here. That’s not a publicly kenned number.”
“The concrete financial terms of Google’s accedence with Apple are highly sensitive to both Google and Apple,” Google verbally expressed in its Jan. 20 filing. “Both Apple and Google have always treated this information as astronomically confidential.”
Interestingly enough, albeit the judge gainsaid Google’s request to block or seal the information, Bloomberg noted that the aforementioned transcript abstrusely vanished from electronic court records around 3pm Thursday afternoon Pacific time.
Oracle has been in an perpetual licit battle with Google since 2010, over claims that the Mountain View company used its Java programming language to develop Android without paying for it. Oracle is seeking to win damages in upwards of $1 billion.
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