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Can Google possibly lose in a ban on placement deals?
Mehta brings up an issue Apple’s Eddy Cue raised during his testimony. Cue said that if Google was banned from cutting exclusive deals, Apple would still be forced to use it as the default because it’s the only viable option, while Google would simply stop needing to pay it for that placement. Is that a valid problem?
“The answer is today versus tomorrow,” Dahlquist says. “Hopefully in a future, world, he would say, I’ve got two or three great options out there,” and he can “play them off each other” to cut even better deals.
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