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"Google on the other hand has never been very successful outside of advertising"

Android is the most widely-used mobile OS in the world. Shouldn't that count as a success?

Sure, Android is a hugely successful way of protecting their advertising business by controlling the mobile platform. However, the revenue from Android is tiny compared to their advertising revenue, and negligible compared to Apple's revenue for comparable products.

True, but also a technology Google did not invent in-house but bought. Although i don't know how much of the original software developed at Android Inc. got into the first devices. That'd be interesting to know :)

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