Google continues to earn the most revenue from its own Android operating systemancfrom internet advertising. It will be no different this year, when it expects revenue from mobile advertising and a 30% share from applications sold via Google Play at the level of 2,5 billion US dollars.
Thanks to Google's out-of-court settlement with Oracle in the case of patent infringement, it became public that Android devices generated less than $2008 million from 2011 to 550. That wouldn't be a bad thing if Google didn't say it made more than $2011 billion in mobile revenue in 1 alone. This means that if you spread the amount of $550 million evenly over four years, you will find a rather startling fact. Google's own operating system earned only $137,5 million per year.
The rest of the finsancThen it comes from Applu and its operating system iOS, which, according to available information, should bring in around 600 million dollars per year for Google. Google in the environment iOS earns the most from the default search engine Google.com, which uses mobile versions of the Internet browser SafariThe rest of the money then comes from the license to use Google Maps v iOS.
As long as you're making money legally, it doesn't really matter where it comes from. Unfortunately for Google, however, its flows could be cut off in the coming years, or perhaps even months. minislightly throttle or stop completely. Apple plans to introduce it as part of the operating system iOS own maps. In addition, users in China can now use Baidu instead of Google as a search engine. However, the above figures only indicate the financThe profits that Google earns, either directly or indirectly, from online advertising in the mobile environment. Pro The company also earns millions in profits from licensing the Android operating system, which is an extremely important part of Google's product portfolio.
*Source: pcworld.cz
isn't android open source by chance? so what kind of licensing and what kind of earnings does google have with android licensing? and this is just speculation or not?
Android is open source but an open source operating system..that means you have some rights to install apps outside of play store just like that..that's it iOS you have to jailbreak to be able to..but google has its patents anyway apple and google licenses from android have nothing.. btw android is from google..