By Jody Godoy
(Reuters) –
A ruling in the U.S. search antitrust case against Alphabet’s Google on Tuesday is a win for mobile phone manufacturers including Apple and Samsung, who a judge said Google can keep paying to be the default search engine on new devices.
Google has said it will file an appeal in the case, meaning the ruling is not likely to take effect immediately.
Here are some of the arguments Apple and others made in court papers ahead of the ruling:
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The iPhone maker supported requiring Google to share its search data with artificial intelligence competitors such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and said it plans to offer more AI-driven options in search.
Apple recently saw a decrease for the first time in the number of Google search queries coming from its Safari