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Beside selling ads. Does it earn money in any other way?

knorker 4y ago
Revenue, yes billions. Profit? We'll see soon if it's changed. Q2 earnings report is on Tuesday. You can find previous reports at abc.xyz
- barbarbar 4y ago
  Thank you for the link. I will study that. Since I think it is interesting to see how they earn on essentially harvesting user data and sell adds based on that. The ads I see are completely useless to me so it is a mystery why companies want to pay for that.
  - yreg 4y ago
    Useless to you might not be useless to the advertiser.
  - Rastonbury 4y ago
    Read their and compare it to other regular companies, this is a company that makes 20bn+ a quarter but can manage double digit revenue growth year on year
MrDresden 4y ago
We know from the Oracle vs Google court case documents[0] that through the Android OS Google had made 22 billion $ in profit, as of 2016. It is a drop in the bucket for a company the size of Google, and the platform was obviously not bought for the direct profit generating capabilities of it. But it seems it has certainly paid for it self. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generated-31-billion-revenue-google-oracle https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...
- juujian 4y ago
  A lot of that might just be internal payments from Google search to Android for Android user ad income? What other revenue sources does Android have? Google Play Store?
  - johannes1234321 4y ago
    > What other revenue sources does Android have? OEMs like Samsung, who want Android+Google Apps and not just AOSP?
gumby 4y ago
I think they have managed to get advertising down to the mid 80% of total revenues. Wall st street would obviously prefer a bit more diversity of sources. In general the company appears to have been drifting around rudderless for the past decade at least. Perhaps this is part of a recognition that they need to reboot a lot of process, but based on past performance I doubt it.
steve76 4y ago

Revenue, yes billions. Profit? We'll see soon if it's changed. Q2 earnings report is on Tuesday. You can find previous reports at abc.xyz

barbarbar 4y ago
Thank you for the link. I will study that. Since I think it is interesting to see how they earn on essentially harvesting user data and sell adds based on that. The ads I see are completely useless to me so it is a mystery why companies want to pay for that.
- yreg 4y ago
  Useless to you might not be useless to the advertiser.
- Rastonbury 4y ago
  Read their and compare it to other regular companies, this is a company that makes 20bn+ a quarter but can manage double digit revenue growth year on year

MrDresden 4y ago

We know from the Oracle vs Google court case documents[0] that through the Android OS Google had made 22 billion $ in profit, as of 2016. It is a drop in the bucket for a company the size of Google, and the platform was obviously not bought for the direct profit generating capabilities of it. But it seems it has certainly paid for it self. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generated-31-billion-revenue-google-oracle https://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10810834/android-generate...

juujian 4y ago
A lot of that might just be internal payments from Google search to Android for Android user ad income? What other revenue sources does Android have? Google Play Store?
- johannes1234321 4y ago
  > What other revenue sources does Android have? OEMs like Samsung, who want Android+Google Apps and not just AOSP?

gumby 4y ago

I think they have managed to get advertising down to the mid 80% of total revenues. Wall st street would obviously prefer a bit more diversity of sources. In general the company appears to have been drifting around rudderless for the past decade at least. Perhaps this is part of a recognition that they need to reboot a lot of process, but based on past performance I doubt it.

steve76 4y ago