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> 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
by 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 agoWell, 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.