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by pc86 3993 days ago
In the grand scheme of things, not a lot of businesses use Apps for their email, but I'd hazard a guess that you're still looking at hundreds of millions of dollars in losses if that were to suddenly disappear.
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It's the cascading service failures and related economic costs that would be the most damaging (and hardest to really quantify until a scenario really happens).
As with most people who reason about Google, you are off by at least two orders of magnitude in your estimate.
Wow, I had no idea that Google Apps were about 15% of Google's revenue. That is a way bigger than I would have guessed. (Hundreds of millions x 2 orders of magnitude is >= 10B, total revenue in 2014, 66B)
I'm not referring to Google revenue, I'm referring to productivity/revenue for the businesses using Apps day to day.