What about Android? That would make google a platform company. Also, arent 'ads' a stand-in for paying for a service? Google has search and youtube. They find

What about Android? That would make google a platform company. Also, arent 'ads' a stand-in for paying for a service? Google has search and youtube. They find niches where they can place ads in places that people typically won't be willing to pay for. I don't want to pay 1 cent to view some website that might be garbage, but I'd be willing to waste 5 seconds scrolling past an ad. However, they have shown that people will pay for streaming services, something people know is valuable.(And they also have free/ad based options) It just seems that people are caught up on Ads, which is really just the payment method you use to access google services. (Also 80% is a common pareto thing, Apple gets ~80% of their revenue through various iphone/ios channels. Apple's one hit wonder is the iphone. Its not exactly something to nitpick)