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That question would make sense if google were in it for the licenses.

• brisance 16y ago
  It was in answer to the earlier post mentioning 100K Android devices shipped on a daily basis. Whereas Google makes no money from each Android device sold and in fact bears the cost of developing Android, Apple on the other hand is recovering its development/marketing expenses and takes all the profit from sales of the iPad. How many Google ad impressions does a consumer need to see before the payoff is the same as that from selling an iPad? Or... how much is your personal data worth to you? To Google?
  • albemuth 16y ago
    It's not a matter of how many ads need to be clicked to pay for the phone, it's about gaining mindshare, more searches, more people using gmail, mobile google maps ubiquity and so on. I have no idea how they could even measure revenue gained by Android use accurately, or even on what timescale they expect to really start benefiting from it, but you can be sure it's going to be huge in a few years.