Posted on Tuesday, April 10 2012 @ 16:29 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Guardian reports court details from a copyright infringement trial in which Google tried to come to a settlement with Oracle reveal that Google get more revenue from Apple iPhone use than from Android ads and apps. Full details
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Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, if figures provided by the search giant as part of a settlement offer with Oracle ahead of an expected patent and copyright infringement trial are an accurate guide.
The figures also suggest that Apple devices such as the iPhone, which use products such as its Maps as well as Google Search in its Safari browser, generated more than four times as much revenue for Google as its own handsets in the same period.
With roughly 200m Android devices having been activated to the end of 2011, including an estimated 90m during the past two years, it suggests that Google derives slightly more than $10 per Android handset per year...
