Apple exec defends tech giant’s decision to make Google default search engine on iPhones, Macs

Google counters that it dominates the market because its search engine is better than the competition - a position that Apple’s Cue supported in his testimony Tuesday. Google also argues that users can, in any event, switch to other search engines with a couple of clicks. — AP

WASHINGTON: A top Apple executive defended the tech giant’s decision to make Google the default search engine on Apple iPhones and Macs, saying there was no "valid alternative.’’

Testifying in the biggest antitrust trial in a quarter century, Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, said Tuesday (Sept 26) that there wasn’t "anybody as good’’ as Google at helping phone and computer users search the internet.