Google twists the knife, asks for sanctions against Oracle attorney

Agreed. Civil litigation works on the principle that finding out the truth is what really matters, and has all sorts of stern features like discovery, who's nastiness is mitigated by rules, like not discussing on open court trade secrets (well, absent winning a procedural fight to allow such disclosure).

Careful what you wish for. Not being able to keep trade secrets is why many toxic trade agreements and patents happened, which ultimately keep the big players big and the small players small.

And does it really help you to know that there's a deal between Google and Apple? It was already public knowledge that Google payed a lot of money to Mozilla for making the default in Firefox. Did you think Apple did it for free or something?

And how exactly does that influence your choices as a customer? Does that make their search engine worse somehow?

I doubt that it can make a difference for a majority of people. For one because it's not newsworthy, I mean, a majority of people don't care about privacy either, let alone worrying about having their choices influenced. But also because Google's search engine is objectively the best search engine and disbelievers should simply try local searches in Europe for a taste of the huge margin of how Google's search beats its competition. And the same can be said of Google Maps actually. Maybe they've integrated it with Waze or something, but it's really smart about traffic and alternative routes lately, not to mention that it's the only one that can keep up with the one-way streets in my city. Apple might have rolled their own solution, but it really sucks by comparison. And the iPhone owners in my city install Google Maps anyway.

Samsung or all other mobile companies now know 1. how much Google pays Apple. 2. How much profit Google makes on mobile search. It will make negotiations harder for Google.

And how, exactly, can it "easily" prove that?

Android was, iirc, a completely clean-room implementation of Java's standard library, sans one method of one class that was coded the same way because it was obvious to code it that way (hence why oracle lost in the first place).

If you can do better than millions of dollars worth of Oracle lawyers, you are indeed a most impressive specimen.

I agree it shouldn't be a secret. However it isn't a level playing field if some companies have secrets and other's don't.

If all agreements between public companies and other entities had to be public then the playing field would be more level and the figures in this case would have already been public.

so you volunteer your salary to all your coworkers without demanding the same of them?