{"id":3501,"date":"2012-04-01T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T13:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2012-12-29T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2012-12-29T11:04:13","slug":"is-android-killing-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/is-android-killing-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Android Killing Google?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040112_0806_IsAndroidKi1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Brian Hall believes that Android, Google&#8217;s mobile computer operating system, is hurting Google. Here&#8217;s why:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The reviews of Google&#8217;s devices are negative compared to other smartphones. Both the iPhone and the Windows Phone provide a better experience.<\/li>\n<li>Despite the huge drain on its revenues, Google isn&#8217;t making much money from Android. Samsung, Android&#8217;s most popular device manufacturer might be making some money, but not Google.<\/li>\n<li>One estimate suggests that Google has made just $550 million from Android. Yet Google has spent up to $20 billion on Android.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>In fact, Android might be hurting Google&#8217;s core business of search from which it still derives the vast majority of its revenues, slowly killing the entire Google enterprise. Reasons include:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Google receives more search queries from the iPhone despite the iPhone having a smaller market share, suggesting that Android&#8217;s dominance has failed to help Google&#8217;s search business.<\/li>\n<li>People don&#8217;t really search on their mobile phones anymore anyway. They use apps and Google makes no money from this.<\/li>\n<li>Even if people did use Google search on Android the value of ads on small-screen smart phones is low.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read what the future of smartphones is, why Android probably won&#8217;t figure in it, what Google should do, and why Amazon has benefitted from Google&#8217;s wastefulness click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/technology-in-madison\/is-google-relevant\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/technology-in-madison\/is-google-relevant\">The Examiner<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Hall believes that Android, Google&#8217;s mobile computer operating system, is hurting Google. Here&#8217;s why: The reviews of Google&#8217;s devices are negative compared to other smartphones. Both the iPhone and the Windows Phone provide a better experience. Despite the huge drain on its revenues, Google isn&#8217;t making much money from Android. Samsung, Android&#8217;s most popular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","category-signature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040112_0806_IsAndroidKi1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7479,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/7479"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}