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Here, let me help you out with ways to find hard data that disprove these conjectures. > Android Take a look at recent court documents about the size of the P
by numair 5y ago
Here, let me help you out with ways to find hard data that disprove these conjectures.
> Android
Take a look at recent court documents about the size of the Play Store revenues. It’s a multi-billion-dollar cash cow after paying off the carriers and device makers to keep their spyware loaded.
> Chrome
Google single handedly kept Mozilla running for over a decade with their search deal. The deal for iOS is worth billions. Chrome will manage just fine.
> GCP
They don’t exactly run that thing as a charity. Anyone familiar with their pricing knows that this is a super-high-margin business. Plus, as a spin-off, it would immediately have a couple gigantic customers: Google spin-offs.
> GSuite/GMail
There’s only two main options for email and productivity SaaS (sorry Zoho). They’re printing money on this one too.
I should disclose that I would rather see Google stay intact, so whoever kneecaps their ad business can kneecap the whole empire in one go and make the whole company and all of its shareholders suffer at the same time. Companies don’t have a right to live if they are generating negative social impact.
- mrweasel 5y agoIt’s hard to say how a split would happen. I guess I would assume a different split, which would force Android and Chrome out of any type of ad business, meaning that Chrome could not take money from search and where Android would be forced out of any user tracking. Other than GCP, which I still think would fail, if split out in the next year or do, you make a good point.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoIndeed. And 95% of all CEOs would probably jump at the chance to run any of these companies, even if they were not money factories right now.