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Google makes plenty of profits out of smartphones. They just don't make it from selling hardware. But a big part of their revenue comes from mobile (they do not

by hristov 13y ago

Google makes plenty of profits out of smartphones. They just don't make it from selling hardware. But a big part of their revenue comes from mobile (they do not tell you what part, unfortunately) and android is very profitable for them as it assures them access to that revenue without having to pay traffic acquisition costs.

adventured 13y ago
And critically keeps them from being locked out of the mobile market by a dominate Samsung / Apple / Microsoft / whomever / combination of. Which is exactly what it was meant to accomplish and why Google was willing to destroy their relationship with Apple to move forward with Android. People like to claim Google doesn't make money with Android, which is a very shallow conclusion: if they had been locked out of the mobile market, it could have buried the company entirely, stranding their future on a languishing desktop.