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> They will never go away. History would say otherwise. Look at how quickly Nokia went south. Look at how quickly Google took over from the AltaVista search
by silvestrov 3y ago
> They will never go away.
History would say otherwise.
Look at how quickly Nokia went south.
Look at how quickly Google took over from the AltaVista search engine.
- denismenace 3y agoThe Nokia example makes much more sense in this case since it was an established company. On the other hand AltaVista was on the early days of the internet where everything was much more turbulent.
- fendy3002 3y agoDon't think that with GCP and play store it'll be as easy to replace Google though
- TexanFeller 3y agoCompared to AWS, no one uses GCP. Compared to IOS App Store, Play Store doesn't sell any paid apps and subscriptions, only adware.
- kernal 3y agoGoogle Play 2021 revenue was 48 Billion and 42 Billion in 2022. I suggest you google in the future. Also, I have an iPhone and it's filled with just as much adware, crapware and ridiculous subscription apps.
- spiralpolitik 3y agoYou don’t have to replace them. You just need to reduce the income from search based ads by enough to cause them to implode. Hard to fund loss leaders like Android with say 20% less revenue.
- jsnell 3y agoNone of us know what the direct profitability of Android is. Given the revenue from Play Store, it at the very least is not obvious that it's a loss-leader. But one thing that is obvious is that having 20% less revenue would not mean Google was unable to work on Android. We know that, because they were able to already fund Android in the distant past of 2021, when their revenue was 20% lower than now. (In fact, they were able to afford Android in 2010, with 90% lower revenue.)