Always love it when someone lets a business secret slip during testimony
According to Bloomberg, Google lawyer John Schmidtlein “visibly cringed when Murphy said the number.”
tens of billions every year to be the default fucking search engine so they can show you even more fucking ads while people starve in the streets. fuck this place. goddamnit what the fuck is fuckin wrong with you fuckers??!?
the majestic isolation of "corporate law", by which corporations and executives do crimes in a perfectly legal and socially acceptable fashion, is an amazing thing sometimes. "we'll make sure Google is invisible on Apple devices unless you pay for a privileged spot, and a large fraction of the bribe kicks back to us directly, rules of the game" isn't something any Apple executive is likely to say or think outright...but that's how it works anyway ~Chara
