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I'd say they wouldn't shut down everything but may stop adding new features.

• pm90 7y ago
  At which point they would quickly become obsolete. Android was a hedge against Apple. GCP is a hedge against AWS. I don't see Google putting the brakes on GCP anytime soon.
  • scarface74 7y ago
    That didn’t work out very well seeing they are still paying Apple a reported $8 - $12 billion a year to be the default search engine and it came out in the Oracle trial that they only made $23 billion in profit off of Android from its inception until the beginning of the trial. Apple makes more from Google in mobile than Google makes from Android.
    • joshuamorton 7y ago
      The beginning of the trial was 2010 or so, so if Android earned Google 23B in 5 years, I imagine it's earned multiples of that in the 10 years since.
      • scarface74 7y ago
        This came out in 2016.... https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0UZ2W9 https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/... Google's Android operating system has generated revenue of about $31 billion and profit of $22 billion since its release, an Oracle Corp lawyer told a U.S. court hearing the software company's copyright lawsuit against Google.
        • joshuamorton 7y ago
          So not at the beginning of the trial then.