Android Crushes Competition in Q4 2012 (and overall)

[disolitude]

superchunk said:

disolitude said:
That's quite impressive. Shows that open platform is the way to go if you want to get market share.

If you want profits though...that's a different story. Talk to Google how much they have made on this huge Android success in terms of device sales revenue and store app sales.

Comparing the last financial reports:
Last quarter Apple made 30 billion revenue on iPhone alone (not counting ipad and mac revenue).
Google made "up to" 800 million revenue on Android. They don't give the exact number.

I wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft made more money on Android than Google by licensing patents. I'm actually pretty sure they did.

If you're going to count the hardware revenue, then you should add in the revenue from all OEM partners... not just Google. Afterall, the biggest appeal to Android is the plethora of hardware choice.

That would be an awesome comparison... Wish someone had that data.

Lets do some rough guesstimation math. 152 million devices at ~250 dollars per device price average VS 47 million devices at ~550 dollars average.

38000000000 vs 25850000000

Android Wins again! :)