But it is a sensation! During a public hearing before the US court, Oracle lawyer revealed that Google earns on Android. Representatives of Google immediately wanted to turn off the information from the public record of the hearing, which strongly gives credence to the figures given by the representative to Oracle.
31 billion – exactly revenues had to generate Google Android since 2008., that since the project Andy Rubin was acquired by Internet giant. Google had to earn a total of $ 22 billion. even.
It’s a lot or a little? – Natural question arises
The answer is, and a lot, and little – depends simply on which side to look. First, so why much.
As you know, the Android is a free mobile operating system that Google provides to each producer concerned the creation of a smartphone, tablet, and more recently technology equipment ubieralnych, modern TVs or other devices so . Internet of Things.
The fact that Samsung, Sony, Huawei and use its popular Android smartphones, Google does not make money. But … he earns that Samsung, Sony, Huawei and offer their phones with Android Google. It is known that Gmail, Google Calendar and Contacts is a must-have for hundreds of millions of customers, so nobody can imagine the first Samsung smartphone shore without them.
That’s not all. Google also makes money from ads near search results on devices with Android. This is a similar model to the one in which PC using the Google search engine, by the way we are shown the ad text. Hundreds of millions of people in there clique. Every day.
There is also a third source of revenue from Android – revenue from mobile app store Google Play.
31 billion. revenue, of which $ 22 billion. earnings on purely within seven years it comes average of 4.4 billion dollars. revenue and 3.1 billion dollars. profit per year. Well, I admit that quite a few as “free” Android.
Now, however, about why it nevertheless little
Well, Google is not the only entity in the market for suppliers of mobile operating systems. The biggest competitor to the big G in this field is, of course, Apple. And it just so happens that in the last quarter finance chief Tim Cook has reported revenue from iPhone sales of USD 32.2 billion.
Yes, you read – in the last quarter, Apple’s revenue from the sale iPhones were higher than Google’s overall revenue from Android between 2008 and 2015. Shocking, is not it?
Of course, as soon as someone can answer that it is still like comparing pears to (NB) of apples – finally Apple sells the entire unit, not just the operating system and of course he will be right. Despite this, the difference between the level of business both leaders of the mobile industry is huge. Let us add that in those 32.2 billion. the iPhone in the last quarter are not taken into account revenue from the App Store, and there after Apple also earns quite a lot of erasing 30 percent. commission on sales.
One thing is certain – the difference great shows fundamental differences between the business models of Google and Apple. Android is today almost 85 percent of the market for mobile operating systems, while iOS is only 13 percent. the global smartphone market. Despite this, the money it earns Apple on its product, are not comparable to anything else.
PS. Oracle talkative lawyer in court revealed another interesting detail – in 2014. Google had to pay Apple’owi round $ 1 billion for the fact that iPhones search engine Google is set by default for users.
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