The Google antitrust case -- which seeks to make Google sell off its Chrome browser -- has taken another very interesting turn. Apple has decided to step in to defend Google, or at least the deal the two companies made, because it believes the latter to be incapable of properly defending Apple's interests.

This is specifically about the agreement between Google and Apple where the former pays billions of Dollars each year for its search engine to be the default choice on Apple's apps. In 2022 it was revealed that Google had paid Apple $20 billion to keep its search engine as the default across Safari.

This deal is understandably quite profitable for Apple: all it has to do is set the world's most popular search engine as the default on its browser. While Google has to pay a ton of money for the privilege it is clearly well worth the investment if it keeps doing so. Prosecutors are arguing that this deal, in addition to other practices Google employs, are anticompetitive.