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by dmitriid 1238 days ago
> Android itself of course makes billions alone, which is enough to justify Fuschia.

Ads are 80% of Google's revenue. Literally nothing else is Google's bread an butter. There's even speculation that Google makes more money from the search deal with Apple than from the entire Android ecosystem.

Android is a vehicle for Google's ads, and suffers from the company's rollercoaster of "interested/not interested" over the years.

Fuchsia by this time is just a 6-year-old money sink with no revenue story.