As anticipated, the US Department of Justice (DoJ) has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google’s parent Alphabet, accusing it of a secret and anti-competitive deal with Apple and other smartphone vendors. The lawsuit says Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, met Google chief Sundar Pichai in 2018 to negotiate a deal which would see the two giants “work as if we are one company”, as a senior Apple employee later put it. This deal saw Google pay for its search engine to be the default on iPhones and other Apple products, replacing Microsoft. In 2019, nearly half Google’s search traffic came from Apple’s products. The DoJ says Apple gets between $8bn and $12bn annually from the agreement. Google afterwards said, in an…