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Same with android, bought for $50M and is now one of the most used operating system globally. https://venturebeat.com/2010/10/27/google-exec-android-was-best-d
by chaos_a 6y ago
Same with android, bought for $50M and is now one of the most used operating system globally.
https://venturebeat.com/2010/10/27/google-exec-android-was-best-deal-ever/ https://venturebeat.com/2010/10/27/google-exec-android-was-b...
- coryrc 6y agoHasn't it made Microsoft more money than Google?
- skj 6y agoI don't know, but if so, is that relevant? The question was whether or not it was a good deal for Google. It's not zero-sum.
- coryrc 6y agoYour argument was it was a good expense because it is popular, yet an uninvolved company is making more, so perhaps the purchase was unnecessary.
- sangnoir 6y agoHow Microsoft made money from Android is quite interesting, and very ORACLE-like: Microsoft went around threatening OEM companies to pay up for a bag of patents it claimed Android infringed, but wouldn't publicly disclose which patents those were. Meaning OEMs couldn't create work-arounds. The mobile IP-wars were something.