[jbigelow76]

What a crock. Google has many legit reasons to not want to build an app for a competing platform, so be it. But to think a company that routinely throws money away on tons of other development efforts while letting search ad revenue subsidize the cost would suddenly start doing a cost/benefit analysis of such a trivial effort is absurd. If your formula was applied to other products, like Google Reader which was never monetized and had huge infrastructure costs, they never would have seen the light of day. This is a strategic stance on Google's part, not financial, nothing wrong with that.