mrstickball on 30 January 2013
| 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. |
Somehow, I doubt that's the whole picture.
Google is a search engine company turned into 1,000 other things. I doubt that they're including the revenues from Android-based searches on that figure (and what about their AdMob acquisition?).
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure Apple makes more money than Google does on smartphones, but I think that Google is thinking longer term in all this as well as what value Android brings to their other services.
Back from the dead, I'm afraid.
