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Originally Posted by Sven
Never had much business savvy, but also never understood how you ran a business at a loss. Google isn't charging for Android. To me that is operating at a loss, since they must be investing money in its development.
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Google's has built a billion+ dollar business by NOT charging for their products. They don't care how or why you use their search engine, just that you use their engine so they can earn ad dollars. Google sees that internet usage is evolving from the desktop to the mobile space and they do not want to be dependent on Apple, At&T Verizon, Microsoft, RIM, etc in making sure they are the defacto mobile search standard. The only way they can do that is to provide the whole OS where possible.
There are a lot of internet companies that don't seem to have a business plan (think Twitter, Facebook, etc.), but in this case I think Google has a plan, and it doesn't involve abandoning Android.