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Old 09-08-2012, 09:35 PM   #7
Andrew H.
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Yet makes a certain degree of sense when you consider that Google is a fiercer competitor for Amazon than Microsoft is. Apple has started de-emphasising/removing Google services for that reason.
Companies pay *big* money to be the default search engine. Google recently agreed to pay Mozilla $300 million per year (for the next three years) to have Google remain the default search engine on Firefox. It was apparently 3 times more than they paid previously because MS was bidding against them.

So the Fire may have less trouble breaking even than one might think.
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