Back in October , Larry Page proudly declared that Google ’s roving products would sire $ 2.5 billion in 2011 . TheGuardian report , reports that Android accounts for a just a tiny fraction of that number . Google ’s iOS products contribute way more to Google ’s bottom line .
According to court paper file in an upcoming legal struggle with Oracle , Google pulled in just $ 550 million from Android substance abuser between 2008 and 2011 . ( The Guardian scranch the numbers and figured out that this work out to roughly $ 10 a class per Android handset . ) Where ’s the rest of that $ 2.5 billion ? Much of it come from iOS :
But while some citizenry interpret that to indicate Android receipts , it overlooked Google ’s deal with Apple , in piazza since the intro of the iPhone in 2007 , through which it provides maps and the default search railway locomotive for its iPhone , iPad and iPod Touch products , which run Apple ’s iOS software . Apple ’s principal executive Tim Cook enjoin the company has sold 315 m iOS devices , though nearly one-half of those have been sold in the past yr .
All of those iOS devices mean that Google actually earn four fourth dimension as much from its slew with Apple than from Android . [ The GuardianviaBGR ]
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