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> only $25 billion in profit Surely there must be a typo in one of these words? I can’t imagine 25 humongous ones being loose change for any business.
by MajorBee 5y ago
> only $25 billion in profit
Surely there must be a typo in one of these words? I can’t imagine 25 humongous ones being loose change for any business.
- morelisp 5y agoIt's a single-digit percentage of what ads make, without much room for growth. I doubt it's a single-digit percentage of technical effort.
- scarface74 5y agoFor a company the size of Google making $22 billion on a product from 2010 to 2016 is a nothingburger. https://www.engadget.com/2016-01-21-android-22-billion-in-profit-oracle.html https://www.engadget.com/2016-01-21-android-22-billion-in-pr... This is their total net income between 2010 and 2016. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-income https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-... They pay Apple a reported $18 billion a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices.