How much does Google earn from Maps anyway? Remember it was free till last year.
Apple is About to Reduce Google's Revenues
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#12The thing is, replicating Google search in terms of quality is very hard now (it is really, really clever) but 99% of users simply won't notice the difference between the awesomeness of Google and the pretty goodness of anything else. So - the question is : why don't Apple do this?
It's a dangerous line of thought (there's a saying, "people who forget history are doomed to repeat it"): it is this awesomeness that allowed Google back in 2000 to overthrow the market incumbents at that time, Altavista, Hotbot and so on. Don't underestimate the power of "awesomeness", in search at least a significant number of users are ready to jump ship whenever something better and with less junk appears.
I agree - many people are waiting for Google's replacement. People were laughing at Bing's quality, but it is really on par with Google right now. It's just that people are habituated to use Google's search. You can test this with this tool:
Truth to be told, Google search results are worse than few years ago. At the same time, they look more and more like a christmas tree - ads and other junk (google products?, google plus results?) everywhere.
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#13google is starting to lose people's trust and now revenues from partners. not looking good for google...
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#14How much is Apple's market share these days? I thought Android was still the major platform and I didn't think Google would be lying awake at night from this.
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#15How much is Apple's market share these days? I thought Android was still the major platform and I didn't think Google would be lying awake at night from this.
http://www.bgr.com/2012/01/27/apple-reclaims-no-1-smartphone...
They used the word global but I had a suspicion the numbers are from NA (or even USA) only. When I searched for their source I found a report claiming to be global that has very different figures for vendor shares. Apple with a 5.2% market share. I know it doesn't translate directly into 5.2% iOS share but it definitely won't be on part with Android as the article reported.
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#16How much does Google earn from Maps anyway? Remember it was free till last year.
Google advertises in Maps.
So even though it is free they are still making money.
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#17How much is Apple's market share these days? I thought Android was still the major platform and I didn't think Google would be lying awake at night from this.
> I thought Android was still the major platform
An iOS device has been sold for every 20 people currently on planet earth... Obviously the distribution is a little skewed ;-) But still, it's a staggering number.
The Android numbers where Android has sold a gabazillion more units than Apple always seem a bit fishy to me, based on what I see around me. Luckily, we can see what people are actually using, actually for real:
http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-ww-monthly-201105-20120...
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#18How much is Apple's market share these days? I thought Android was still the major platform and I didn't think Google would be lying awake at night from this.
> I thought Android was still the major platform An iOS device has been sold for every 20 people currently on planet earth... Obviously the distribution is a little skewed ;-) But still, it's a staggering number. The Android numbers where Android has sold a gabazillion more units than Apple always seem a bit fishy to me, based on what I see around me. Luckily, we can see what people are actually using, actually for r…
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#19google is starting to lose people's trust and now revenues from partners. not looking good for google...
> google is starting to lose people's trust
What indications tell you that Google is loosing people's trust, besides your own ?
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#20google is starting to lose people's trust and now revenues from partners. not looking good for google...
> google is starting to lose people's trust What indications tell you that Google is loosing people's trust, besides your own ?
Google is the next Microsoft.