Google used loss of Map’s traffic to Apple as “data point”, says executive in court

Two years after Apple dropped Google Maps as its default service on iPhones in favour of its own app, Google had regained only 40% of the mobile traffic it used to have on its mapping service, this was revealed by Google executive during testimony in the ongoing antitrust trial against Google-parent Alphabet Inc company.

According to a report in Bloomberg, Michael Roszak, Google vice president for finance, said that the company used the Apple Maps switch as “a data point” when modelling what might happen if the iPhone maker replaced Google’s search engine as the default on Apple’s Safari browser.