Apple Manager has a few words sagging the Google Group-DiePresse.com

With just a few sets in the courtroom, a senior Apple manager sent the Google Group Alphabet stock to a steep descent. The paper fell by around 8 percent. The Eddy Cue responsible for the service business for the service business said, among other things, that the iPhone group also wanted to integrate the new AI search in addition to Google in its web browser Safari in the future.

In addition, according to Cue, there was a decline in the classic web search in Safari for the first time in April. He attributed this to the fact that users asked software with artificial intelligence instead, as the Bloomberg financial service reported from the courtroom. The process deals with a competitive action by the US government against Google.

Fears of investors confirmed

The question of whether AI chat systems such as Chatgpt or Perplexity could blow the dominance of Google when searching for web has been in the room for a long time. So far, the Internet group has reported growth in its search engine business. With Cue’s words, however, many investors saw themselves confirmed in their concerns and countered the alphabet share. Advertising in the area of ​​search queries is still the most important source of money from the group.

Meanwhile, Google itself is also working on supplementing answers to search queries with summaries created by artificial intelligence. And with the Gemini software, Google competes directly with chatt and other AI chatbots.

No iPhone in ten years?

Meanwhile, Apple also has an interest in the outcome of the procedure. A central point of attack of the lawsuit is the deals, thanks to which Apple and the Firefox developer Mozilla receive billions from Google for the fact that Google is preset in the web browsers as a standard search engine. The US government argues that Google’s dominance cemented these agreements and would have to be banned.

The Google share’s descent pushed a different potentially explosive statement of CUE into the background. « You couldn’t need an iPhone in ten years, » Bloomberg quoted the Apple Manager. Here, too, Cue referred to the technology change by AI. The iPhone is by far the most important Apple product and the driver for the high billion gains.

(APA)