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Re:Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF D... by wai1234 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @10:55PM (#15197583)
Google makes its money on search+adwords. Everything else they do is a hobby, and it shows. Not necessarily evil, but sloppy produces the same bad result.
Re:Google Developer Account Wrongly Terminated NO MEANS OF D... by ac29 on Thursday September 07, 2017 @11:57PM (#15197765)
Google makes single-digit billions in revenue from the Android App Store. While not explicitly broken out, the info is in their annual report [0], where "other revenues" are a bit over 10B USD (>10% of total revenue):

"Google other revenues consist primarily of revenues and sales from:

• Apps, in-app purchases, and digital content in the Google Play store;

• Hardware;

• Licensing-related revenue; and

• Service fees received for our Google Cloud offerings."

As an aside, the risks section is surprisingly interesting and honest. A recommended read.

[0] https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/2016_google_annual_report.pdf