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Absolute failure? If by absolute failure you mean the number one smartphone platform in the world, sure. Maps? Has businesses pay for ad spots. Google Earth? Free users help tune and perfect it by sending data back to Google, which they then use to develop Google Earth Pro for businesses, government and universities, which makes them money. Google Plus? Yeah, that could be described as a failure so far, but usage is on the rise and it's not as if Apple hasn't introduced a social feature that no one likes (Ping). Youtube? Makes money through ads.Android has been an absolute failure though. Just like Maps, just like Google Earth, just like Google Plus, just like the acquisition of Youtube. They continue to earn around 95% of their revenue from adwords and are losing money off most of their other business units. Meanwhile, Apple has been an astute innovator and has a market value worth double Google's.
You'd hope after all of their mistakes they're smart enough not to burn bridges with some of their major distributors.
All of the services or divisions which you say lose them money actually help them to make money. Maps? Keeps you tied into Google services. Youtube? Google services. Android? Google services. The more people that use their services, the more accurate Google can make their ad spots, and the more accurate an ad spot is, the more businesses will want to buy into it. If Google can determine from people using their services on Android, Youtube etc. that men in Australia aged 18-35 watch or look up a lot of NRL content, they can offer ad spots to the NRL, or businesses that want to promote to the same market, that target this group, resulting in increased attention to a business' products from that age group. Hence why Google doesn't care about making money directly from Android- they give it away for free to whoever wants to use, they know they're not going to make money directly from it. This is how Google makes money, and they make a ton of it.
It's a completely different business model from Apple, I have no idea why you'd call it a failure as they're one of the wealthiest companies on Earth. Apple is subject to the whim of fashion- as soon as iPhones, iPads etc. start to decline in popularity, their stock will tank heavily.
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