Although it is known that Google does not make much money from its platform for mobile terminals, a recent set of documents presented to a court reveals that iOS is much more profitable than Android for Google. Between 2008 and 2011, Google stands up that he earned 550 million dollars from Android OS, but the amount collected from the iOS platform, where we have Google Maps and the Search service, would be 4 times higher. The difference lies in the popularity of the platforms because iDevices were much more popular at that time and have a slightly larger user base, but even so we are talking about very large amounts that come from a competing platform and not from our own.
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.
Practically, between 2008 and 2011, Google would have collected approximately 2.2 billion dollars from Apple for the licensing of its own services, and now you can get an idea about the money that Apple spends to maintain the iOS platform. I expected Android to produce more and going by the idea of good faith I don't think that Google would have hidden other income from the court in front of which the documents were presented.
