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Originally Posted by holymadness
It seems like that's what they're trying to do, though I think the ultimate strategy is to get as many people as possible using Google services to generate mobile advertising revenue.
Have you heard of a browser extension called Privacyfix? It analyses your web activity on various online services and estimates your value to them in terms of ad revenue (and lets you turn off tracking, if you so desire). Apparently, I am worth $900 a year to Google. For that kind of contribution, Google ought to give me a tablet for free.  |
Or at least at cost, as Amazon and Nook Media do.
Google's balance sheet is plenty big but so is their ambition. (Though they do waste a lot of money in "wild geese chasing". But a lot of money in Google-speak translates to sofa-cushion-money.)
They can easily afford to grow their share and protect their investment in generic Android by selling at cost but they do want to eat their cake and have it, too, just as Apple does.
As the saying goes, "what a man has done, a man can aspire to."
(Woman can aspire to better, but for guys, matching is enough of a reach.
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Oh, and BPH = Big.Publishing.House.