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by squirrellous 51 days ago
Ha, probably nobody at Google even knows the exact cost of each of those business lines.
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Yep - It's nearly impossible to assign profit to those things - we have X revenue from Android licenses, what's the cost of an android license? Is it all the R&D that goes to UI or hardware research? What's the cost of a Youtube Ad?