Re:Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says
by 5ersi on Saturday January 23, 2016 @07:11AM
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Google Ads are not an integrated part of any Android OS. Google Play Store is available on most western Android phones but is not part of an OS - see Amazon Kindle and most Chinese phones.
Google ads are delivered either via web pages or as ads in apps. In both cases the owner of the page/app decides which ad network they'll use. There is plenty of competition in ads space.
The situation is the same on iOS, where Google has no leverage, yet they have the same revenue stream from ads.
The only advantage Google has is the default search engine setting on official Google Android phones.
SO you
If Google didn't had android they could not access the same revenue stream if there was an alternative OS the only thing they could do is either generate revenue via regular browsing.
Your TV analogy is incorrect because in your case these ads are platform agnostic, a correct analogy would be GE selling smart TV's that allow NBC to display ads outside of it's regular TV broadcasting (which anyone who owns an LG TV knows just how annoying the fuck it is) in this case this capability is platform specific meaning NBC can only display these types of ads on GE smart TV's if some one has a Sony TV NBC can't display these ads hence NBC can't make money on selling those specific advertisements.