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Google is making real money with Android, and even if it's a loss leader it's just another medium to expand their search business. They can afford to lose the m
by Daishiman 17y ago
Google is making real money with Android, and even if it's a loss leader it's just another medium to expand their search business. They can afford to lose the millions in Android develoment and they still come out winning.
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- houseabsolute 17y agoWhat money do you suppose they are making? It's probably cheaper to pay Apple to maintain Google as the default search engine on the phone than to make their own. It's unlikely that a whole lot more internet searches are happening because of Android that wouldn't have happened in any other arrangement of the ecosystem, so I still don't see how Google benefits.
- GeneralMaximus 17y agoYes, that's an option. But consider this: the iPhone becomes the number one smartphone out there -> Mobile Safari has the highest mobile marketshare of any web browser -> Apple controls the mobile web. What Google ultimately want is an open web so they keep making money from AdSense/AdWords.