Comment by dasil003
8 years ago
The strategies are orthogonal. Google's interest is not in making money from smartphones, it's in preventing Apple from having a monopoly wherein they can charge Google unlimited amounts for access to mobile users.
8 years ago
The strategies are orthogonal. Google's interest is not in making money from smartphones, it's in preventing Apple from having a monopoly wherein they can charge Google unlimited amounts for access to mobile users.
But Google still pays Apple $3 billion a year....
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billio...
Exactly. Can you imagine how much it would be if Apple had a monopoly on smartphones?
Apple would never have a monopoly on smart phones even if Google had not come along. Most people either can't or won't spend the amount that Apple charges for phones. The cheapest iPhone is $100 more expensive than the average price of the Android.
If anything, Microsoft would have won over OEMs and been where Android is.
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