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

pm90 · on Feb 15, 2020

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 · on Feb 15, 2020

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 · on Feb 15, 2020

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 · on Feb 15, 2020

This came out in 2016....

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 · on Feb 15, 2020

So not at the beginning of the trial then.