Apple Maps became iPhone’s default in 2012. By 2014, Google Maps had lost at least 60% of its mobile traffic a court case reveals. With iOS 17, Apple Maps introduced offline maps, so users can easily select an area on their device and download it with just a tap. While offline, users are able to access turn-by-turn navigation and see their estimated time of arrival, seen here on a route to Yosemite National Park. Bloomberg News: Two years after Apple Inc. dropped Google Maps as its default service on iPhones in favor of its own app, Google had regained only 40% of the mobile traffic it used to have on its mapping service, a Google executive testified in the antitrust…

Apple Maps became iPhone’s default in 2012. By 2014, Google Maps had lost at least 60% of its mobile traffic a court case reveals. With iOS 17, Apple Maps introduced offline maps, so users can easily select an area on their device and download it with just a tap. While offline, users are able to access turn-by-turn navigation and see their estimated time of arrival, seen here on a route to Yosemite National Park. Bloomberg News: Two years after Apple Inc. dropped Google Maps as its default service on iPhones in favor of its own app, Google had regained only 40% of the mobile traffic it used to have on its mapping service, a Google executive testified in the antitrust…

The Department of Justice’s case against Alphabet-subsidiary Google is the first test of Silicon Valley’s dominance since it took action against Microsoft more than two decades ago. One focus of the DOJ’s case are the billions of dollars that Google has paid Apple to be the default search engine on its Safari web browser. DOJ antitrust lawsuit targets Google’s multibillion-dollar default search pact with Apple Leah Nylen for Bloomberg Businessweek: Since 2005, Google has paid Apple billions of dollars to be the default search engine on its Safari web browser, a deal that’s brought the two trillion-dollar corporations together in ways that have raised eyebrows in Washington. “Our vision is that we work as if we are one company,” wrote…

Spain’s antitrust watchdog, CNMC, fined Amazon and Apple a total of €194.1 million ($218.03 million) on Tuesday for colluding to limit the online sale of Apple and competitor devices in Spain. The two contracts that the companies signed on October 31, 2018, which granted Amazon the status of an authorized Apple dealer, included anti-competitive clauses that affected the online market for electronic devices in Spain. Reuters: Apple was fined 143.6 million euros and Amazon 50.5 million euros. The two companies have two months to appeal the decision. Spokespeople from Apple and Amazon separately said their respective companies intend to appeal the fines. We reject the suggestion made by CNMC that Amazon benefits from excluding sellers from its market place, as…

Spain’s antitrust watchdog, CNMC, fined Amazon and Apple a total of €194.1 million ($218.03 million) on Tuesday for colluding to limit the online sale of Apple and competitor devices in Spain. The two contracts that the companies signed on October 31, 2018, which granted Amazon the status of an authorized Apple dealer, included anti-competitive clauses that affected the online market for electronic devices in Spain. Reuters: Apple was fined 143.6 million euros and Amazon 50.5 million euros. The two companies have two months to appeal the decision. Spokespeople from Apple and Amazon separately said their respective companies intend to appeal the fines. We reject the suggestion made by CNMC that Amazon benefits from excluding sellers from its market place, as…

On July 16, 2014, Apple agreed to pay $450 million to resolve the Department of Justice's antitrust case regarding e-book pricing. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)