Apple has been pushing hard to scrub all traces of Google from its iOS cash cow (including dropping Google Maps in a controversial move), but it seems that Google is willing to pay big lumps of cash to stay on.
According to analysts at Morgan Stanley, the Mountain View-based company will give Apple $1 billion to stay the default search engine on iOS. Yes, Google is still the default search provider, even though the Google branding was removed from Safari in iOS v4.0.
The wad of cash was much smaller in 2009