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It does not ignore Search or Play: > ...Google collected about $11.8 billion on mobile search ads in 2014, with about 75 percent coming from ads on iPhones and
by millstone 11y ago
It does not ignore Search or Play:
> ...Google collected about $11.8 billion on mobile search ads in 2014, with about 75 percent coming from ads on iPhones and iPads... 2014, Google Play sold about $10 billion in apps, of which Google kept about $3 billion
Yes, I can buy Google Play media on other devices, including my iPhone, but surely non-Android Google Play revenue is a rounding error.
The claim about "a billion devices per year" is false - around 30% of Android sales are forked AOSP, which Google does not allow Maps on. The concern is that these forked variants are most popular in growth markets.