A federal judge ruled that Google violated US antitrust law by maintaining a monopoly in the search and advertising markets.

The advertising portion seems specific to “general search text advertising,” so YouTube shouldn’t be at risk.

We’ll see where this goes, but my guess is Big G won’t be buying default status anymore.

The prospect of losing tens of billions in guaranteed revenue from Google — which presently come at little to no cost to Apple — disincentivizes Apple from launching its own search engine when it otherwise has built the capacity to do so