Investing.com -- Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) has expressed interest in participating in Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL)'s forthcoming U.S. antitrust trial concerning online search, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The tech giant has indicated that it cannot depend on Google to protect revenue-sharing contracts that earn Apple billions of dollars annually, the report said.
These contracts are based on Apple's decision to make Google the primary search engine on its Safari browser.
Apple's legal team confirmed on Monday that the company does not intend to create its own search engine to rival Google's, irrespective of whether these payments persist.
In 2022, Apple's agreement with Google reportedly brought in an estimated $20 billion.
Apple is keen to bring forward witnesses to testify in the trial scheduled for April, the report said.
It also added that the prosecutors in the case are expected to argue that Google needs to implement several changes, including selling its Chrome web browser and possibly its Android operating system, to reinstate competition in the online search sector.
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