Google deal that Apple SVP Eddy Cue says he has “lost sleep over”

Apple’s estimated $20 billion annual search agreement with Google faces an uncertain future as Safari searches declined for the first time in over two decades, according to testimony from Apple’s Senior Vice President of Services Eddy Cue on Wednesday. The landmark deal, which makes Google the default search engine across Apple’s devices, has become a critical revenue stream for Apple’s services business while simultaneously coming under intense scrutiny in Google’s ongoing antitrust trial.

“I’ve lost a lot of sleep thinking about it,” Cue admitted during Google’s antitrust trial, referring to the prospect of losing the lucrative revenue-sharing arrangement that makes Google the default search engine in Apple’s Safari browser.