Apple’s Mistake (2009)

Re:Apple’s Mistake (2009) by scarface74 on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:08PM (#30419961)

Google doesn’t care about Android’s experience or the Play Store. It came out in the Oracle lawsuit that Android had only made Google around $25 billion in profit during its existence. Android was already the dominant platform around then. Apple makes more from Google in mobile by Google paying it to be the default search engine than Google makes from Android.

Android is only a defensive play for Google not a profit center

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Re:Apple’s Mistake (2009) by MajorBee on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:25PM (#30420150)

> only $25 billion in profit

Surely there must be a typo in one of these words? I can’t imagine 25 humongous ones being loose change for any business.

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Re:Apple’s Mistake (2009) by scarface74 on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:35PM (#30420266)

For a company the size of Google making $22 billion on a product from 2010 to 2016 is a nothingburger.

https://www.engadget.com/2016-01-21-android-22-billion-in-pr...

This is their total net income between 2010 and 2016.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/net-...

They pay Apple a reported $18 billion a year to be the default search engine on Apple devices.

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Re:Apple’s Mistake (2009) by morelisp on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:38PM (#30420305)

It's a single-digit percentage of what ads make, without much room for growth. I doubt it's a single-digit percentage of technical effort.

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Re:Apple’s Mistake (2009) by ffhhj on Monday February 21, 2022 @03:35PM (#30420275)

Please mark this as accepted answer.

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