Google Play Store operates at 70% profit margin, Epic v Google court case reveals

Google's mobile-based Play Store allegedly made $12 billion operating profit (EBIT) throughout 2021, which seemingly contradicts Microsoft's numbers.

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Yes, if you exclude the research and development costs then most websites have high margins. Keeping it running is the cheap part.
- … what kind of research and development do you think went into this, when did this take place, and how much do you suppose it cost?
  
  Follow-up question: Do you actually know anything about software development?
  
  How much R&D went into creating the Google Play store? Probably 100s of millions of dollars so far over the course of about 15 years. Do you not know what R&D is or something? In the US tax code, software development is considered R&D.
  
  And yes, I am a software developer.
  
  Research question: where are my customers at all times and what are they doing at all times?
  
  Development goal: Design a system to know where all must customers are at all times and what they are doing.
  
  Lmao unnecessary gatekeeping attempt.
Fucking doy right? Their middleman products are licensed ideas, not a huge overhead.

70 percent seems low

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