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> possibility that it could be natural and benign.

Paying billions of dollars to Apple to include only their baseband chips to monopolize is hardly natural.

Google pays Apple billions of dollars to include only their search engine.

It happens all the time. Then again maybe this is changing.

Apple includes other search engines in their dropdowns. Google is paying for being the default not the only option.

You can choose your search engine on iOS.