Apple has filed a motion in the United States v. Google antitrust case seeking limited intervention as a proposed defendant, as well as a declaration signed by Apple Senior Vice President of Services Eddy Cue.
Both come down to Apple asking the court to allow continued cooperation and revenue sharing between the two giants, in the search space.
Previously, the US District Court for the Court of Columbia Judge Amit Mehta found that both search service and search advertising market have been illegally monopolized by Google.
Now Apple has moved to intervene to ensure it is not prevented from continuing to receive payments from Google for making its search engine default in the Safari browser. The value of this deal was around $22 billion in 2022.
