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How much revenue is Google getting from these 200k Android activations? How much will it get from GoogleOS? The growth being referred to is revenue growth. Sun

How much revenue is Google getting from these 200k Android activations? How much will it get from GoogleOS? The growth being referred to is revenue growth. Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders. I believe Google is capable of continued revenue growth, but now they are going to have to fight for it like everybody else. I actually think their one engineer for every non-engineer hire is going to hurt them in those efforts, though.

cryptoz 16y ago
> Sun showed very well that giving away everything is not the path to happy shareholders. Well, Google has shown that giving away everything does lead to happy shareholders. Google only sells one thing: ads. (Okay, they sell a bit of hardware here and there to large enterprises, but they don't make a ton of money from that from what I understand). I don't know how much revenue Google gets from Android activations nor do I know how much they will get from Chrome OS. I assume that they get a bit from each sale, but I'd bet that amount is very small compared to the ad clicks once the user starts searching on the device.
- awa 16y ago
  Well, they have also tried to make revenue in other ways but haven't done well with Google checkout and Google Apps for Enterprise, if they are so happy with ads they wouldn't be doing Google Apps which is basically not their main forte (enterprise customers, actual support, non-free web apps) Dependence on ads for money is like the Google's Achilles heel right now.
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