This isn’t Google being “evil” just incompetent. During their entire history, they’ve had one successful product - advertising.
No Android has not been a financial success. It came out in the Oracle trial that Android had only made Google $27 Billion in profit from its inception through the trial start date.
For comparison, Google pays Apple a reported $14 Billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS devices. Apple makes more in mobile from Google than Google makes from Android.
Android has immeasurable value, by way of ensuring Google didn't get locked out of the mobile ecosystem. What happens to Chrome's market share without being a default on one of the most used operating systems in the world? How about Google's traffic data for Google Maps without billions of devices they own reporting in every 60 seconds?
Android's value may not be easy to measure, but it's worth in building and maintaining Google's moat positively boggles the mind.
Google is locked out the ecosystem of people who actually have money to spend. How else do you explain how they are willing to pay a competitor $14 billion+ a year?
It doesn’t matter that Android is running on a bunch of $100 phones where they are getting a low ARPU. The Oracle trial showed how little profit came from Android.
Who do you think business would rather target iPhone users or Android users?
Google has never been focused on the end user like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. All three of them live and die by customer service. But Google could care less about the end user.
This isn’t Google being “evil” just incompetent. During their entire history, they’ve had one successful product - advertising.
No Android has not been a financial success. It came out in the Oracle trial that Android had only made Google $27 Billion in profit from its inception through the trial start date.
For comparison, Google pays Apple a reported $14 Billion a year to be the default search engine on iOS devices. Apple makes more in mobile from Google than Google makes from Android.
Android has immeasurable value, by way of ensuring Google didn't get locked out of the mobile ecosystem. What happens to Chrome's market share without being a default on one of the most used operating systems in the world? How about Google's traffic data for Google Maps without billions of devices they own reporting in every 60 seconds?
Android's value may not be easy to measure, but it's worth in building and maintaining Google's moat positively boggles the mind.
Google is locked out the ecosystem of people who actually have money to spend. How else do you explain how they are willing to pay a competitor $14 billion+ a year?
It doesn’t matter that Android is running on a bunch of $100 phones where they are getting a low ARPU. The Oracle trial showed how little profit came from Android.
Who do you think business would rather target iPhone users or Android users?
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Incompetence that leads to accusing a caring father of distributing CP seems “evil” to me.
And I usually find myself on your side of these discussion, trying to avoid hyperbole. I don’t think ‘evil’ is hyperbolic in this case.
Google has never been focused on the end user like Apple, Microsoft and Amazon. All three of them live and die by customer service. But Google could care less about the end user.
Standard disclaimer; I work for AWS.
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