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Presumably Google benefits financially from the Android ecosystem. Play store if nothing else. You can imagine a different world where many mobile OS providers
by rich_sasha 4y ago
Presumably Google benefits financially from the Android ecosystem. Play store if nothing else.
You can imagine a different world where many mobile OS providers exist, charge you for the system, then comes out Google with free Android, kills the competition and then milks monopoly pricing.
- wodenokoto 4y agoNot presumably. Around the release of android, google was quoting estimated earnings in the billions of dollars from a free and open source Android, purely from capturing mobile ad views/clicks.