G+_Kevin Spitzer (JaguarXT Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Didn't Google make money on Motorola? http://9to5mac.com/2016/01/22/apple-made-more-revenue-from-iphone-in-a-single-quarter-than-google-has-ever-made-from-android/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Yeah, and their products are still not for me. There is something indeterminate that rubs me the wrong way about them... and the same is starting to happen with Google too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 I don't buy that their big quarter is holiday after they always ramp production back, they will do better than last year the same quarter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Pierre-André Bergeron Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 IPhone is hardware, Android is an os. What's the point of comparing them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 How valuable each business is either hardware or soft wear/ads, but you are right it's not that simple. Apple soft wear is a main part of EIT hardware and Google also sells hardware at runs their OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rudy Vazquez Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 Given that Google paid Apple $1 Billion (pinky finger to mouth) to remain the default search engine on iOS, I'm not surprised. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Steve Kluver Posted January 22, 2016 Share Posted January 22, 2016 And, Google is a Search/Ad company. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_David Eckard Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 Apple has over charged since the 70's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Franklin Bates Posted January 23, 2016 Share Posted January 23, 2016 I don't feel like you can compare the two. Google doesn't make the hardware, and they basically give the OS away, it's technically an open source project. Samsung can sell a few million phones and Google sees very little of that revenue, if any. They just want to get their services in people's hands. The services are how Google makes their money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Lie Ryan Posted January 25, 2016 Share Posted January 25, 2016 I'm with Franklin Bates on this one. This is a silly comparison. Google made profit every time an Apple user search for things on Google. Apple made money on hardware, while Google made money on online services. They may both be developing mobile OS, but they have totally different business model. For Google, Android is about driving down the cost of accessing the internet. Their Android team could be losing money left and right but they would be able to recuperate that from general increase of Internet users, which leads to increased usage of Internet search, ads revenue, YouTube creators and users, business using Google Apps, sites using Analytics, developers using GCE, etc. For Apple, had their mobile business been losing money, they'd have to shut it down. Apple's service businesses is purely intended as a value added service for the hardware they sell. The reason Google feels it's worth it to pay $1 billion to Apple to keep itself as the default search engine tells you that that position is worth a lot more than $1 billion that it paid out. A more sensible comparison would be between Apple and Samsung, as they both run hardware business. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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