Even if DuckDuckGo and Bing pay absolutely nothing, it's good leverage to make G...

Even if DuckDuckGo and Bing pay absolutely nothing, it's good leverage to make Google pay even more, and its already public knowledge Google pays a lot to remain the default search engine on iOS, to the tune of billions of dollars a year:

> https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...

> https://www.npr.org/2020/10/22/926290942/google-paid-apple-b...

etc, etc. Given Google pay a lot more for this privilege today than in years past, this may well have been part of the strategy.