Re:Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
by Phlarp on Monday April 20, 2015 @10:50AM
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Mostly yes, Adwords is still the elephant in the room. Android is modestly profitable and now Youtube is finally eeking out profit for them, but all of these cash flow sources are firmly rooted in showing ads to captive eyeballs.
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Re:Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
by chambo622 on Monday April 20, 2015 @12:09PM
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I'm curious what you mean by "Android is modestly profitable." Google doesn't charge OEMs (or anyone) for Android.
Re:Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
by Phlarp on Monday April 20, 2015 @02:33PM
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They get a cut of app store sales, and additional third parties pay them to display ads within mobile apps using admob.
Although it isn't hard to come up with other ways for them to extract more money out of android, I can't imagine a lack of willing buyers for all sorts of information they could harvest from the billion or so deployed devices.
Re:Elon Musk Had a Deal to Sell Tesla to Google in 2013
by bryanlarsen on Monday April 20, 2015 @03:12PM
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They certainly do charge for Android. AOSP is free, but that only includes a small part of what is shipped on an Android Phone. If you want all the apps (Mail, Play Store, etc.) you have to pay.