Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Apple Releasing a Windows Browser

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

A friend of mine at work told me that he read that Apple is paid by Google 
for every use of the little Google search window in Safari.  He said that 
they are currently getting about $50 million per year and that's with 5% 
of the browser market.  So that means that every 1% of the browser market 
is worth about $10 million per year just from Google.  No wonder they want 
to produce a Windows version!

The same guy told me that Dell is paid a lot by Microsoft for including 
Windows on their computers and this is mostly because of advertising 
revenue (same as for Google I guess).  He suspects that the payments are 
enough to more than compensate for the cost of putting the Microsoft OS on 
the computers.  In other words, he thinks that Microsoft loses a little 
bit of money to Dell for every Windows PC they ship.  I hadn't thought of 
that before.

Mike

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