Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry...
by eridius on Thursday February 18, 2016 @03:07PM
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Fair enough, it's certainly possible that the stat is no longer true. Unless they've talked about it recently, it's hard to know for sure. Here's an article from May of 2015 that says that 75% of Google's mobile search revenue comes from iOS, which probably hasn't changed too dramatically since then, but it may no longer be accurate: http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/05/27/apples-ios-drives-...
Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry...
by Oletros on Thursday February 18, 2016 @03:20PM
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> Here's an article from May of 2015 that says that 75% of Google's mobile search revenue comes from iOS,
Ah, the other figure from a report from Goldman Sachs that nobody has seen but it is now dogma.
When you find the report, please, put it.
And, by the way, using Appleinsider as source is very funny
Re:Apple Letter on iPhone Security Draws Muted Tech Industry...
by eridius on Thursday February 18, 2016 @03:33PM
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It is funny, but it was the first result my search gave me. The result after was from another site that reported the same figure though, so it's not like AppleInsider was alone.
I think that statement's based on an old stat that, at that time, Google's revenue from licensing (Apple was paying for Maps) and advertising (including web and search advertising, and at the time Google was the default search provider on iOS and this was also before Siri was around to displace some web search) to iOS users was greater than its revenue from Android.
The facts on which all that was based (market share, basis of iOS revenue streams, etc.) have changed substantially since then.