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This line becomes blurry ... Google also sells hardware devices, Amazon as well... Microsoft as well ...Advertising is a big market and it looks like that every
by themihai 9y ago
This line becomes blurry ... Google also sells hardware devices, Amazon as well... Microsoft as well ...Advertising is a big market and it looks like that everyone tries to get a chunk of it...even TV manufacturers (with their App stores etc). Now it's quite common to develop a device that runs only some DRM software(i.e. various TV sticks, coffee machines, music players).
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoGoogle "sells hardware", yes, but Google makes somewhere in the realm of 99% of it's money on advertising. The fact that they technically have other businesses doesn't change who they are. You wouldn't call Google an ISP, yet Google also has both Fiber and Google Fi. Google is an ad company... with hobbies. (Microsoft is almost certainly a "software company" even though they sometimes make hardware, and while Apple does make it's own software, it is indisputably a "hardware company".)
- darren_ 9y ago> but Google makes somewhere in the realm of 99% of it's money on advertising almost 15% of google's revenue in q4 2017 was hardware/cloud/subscriptions. there's possibly a bump in hardware since it's q4, but 'in the realm of 99%' is not close at all. and this is trending upwards. (yes yes, googler here)
- ocdtrekkie 9y agoThanks for the correction! 84% of statistics are made up on the spot, and I'll admit, I didn't check current numbers before this comment. Mind you, I don't think the percentage significantly changes the value of my point. I do wonder if that statistic will change enough for advertising not to be the core of Google's business though.