A piece of Information that had not known published Google prefer to use the Oracle is said to have confidential documents, the amount of sales and profits with the operating system Android blabbed.
Oracle estimates the sales made by Google with the mobile operating system Android since the market launch in October 2008, to about 31 billion dollars. As is clear from the court documents related to the dispute between Oracle and Google over the use of Java in Android is meant to Google a profit of 22 billion dollars earned. Google seems to be the fact that this Information is now Public, little Hobbies. As reported by Bloomberg, is said to have Google complained about the release of this confidential Information.
The Oracle attorney Annette Hurst led the Numbers at a hearing last week as evidence for the commercial use of Java in Android. The company accuses Google, protected parts of Java to use, without having to pay for a license.
Google’s published Figures do not include data on revenue and profits that Google has with Android. Google deserves, however, to Show that delivers it to Android users, and with every App, every Video and every Song, the user in the Online marketplace Google Play to buy.
As Oracle has determined these Figures, is not known. They date documents according to the report, confidential financial’ve provided to Google. Therefore, the Internet group on 20. January, requested to black in the minutes of the public hearing, the question of the passages with the financial data. Oracle have made the “extremely sensitive information”, which were classified as “only for lawyers”, tortious open to the public.
“Google has Android turnover and profits to the public separately,” says Google’s font set that Bloomberg is present. “This non-public financial data is highly sensitive and disclosure of which might have a significant impact on Google’s business.”
According to Bloomberg the meantime, the published record of the hearing was removed yesterday from the electronic court documents. Whether the court have, however, met in fact, Google’s request for confidentiality, is not known.
Using the financial data from Oracle to prove that Google is using Java to achieve profits. In addition, the data serve as a basis for the calculation of potential damages.
A Bloomberg Respondent Analyst the Figures mentioned however, is not very meaningful. It Details the regional origin, and also to the temporal development were missing. Thus, for example, it is not possible to determine the value of the Android business on a specific date. The relatively high margin of Google, however, is no Surprise.
The Numbers show how important it is for Android, Google has become. It is distributed in the Figures referred to in the financial years 2009 to 2015, average annual sales of approximately $ 4.4 billion and a profit of around $ 3.1 billion per year. The fiscal year 2014 Google with a Surplus of 14.4 billion dollars in revenues of $ 66 billion. After nine months, Google’s balance sheet for the year 2015, 53.7 billion dollars in sales and a net profit of 11,425 billion dollars.
A robust comparison to Apple, the Figures do not, however, make it. On paper, Apple has with its mobile devices (iPhone and iPad) in a quarter more revenue than Google, with Android in seven years, Google’s principal place of business in this Segment, the sale of Premium Hardware is. This is provided free of charge mobile OS should provide instead, Traffic offered by Google ads, as well as, users for the services of the company. In addition, it should be clear that Google documents, the revenue from Android in the court as low as possible, and focuses on one. Because this information could be used also for the calculation of damages by Oracle.
However, it is clear that Google pay, despite a significantly larger user less with Android than Apple iOS. The Figures of the market researcher App Annie show. Therefore, Google Play in 2015, although it was recorded almost twice as many App Downloads, such as the Apple App Store, Apple made of 75 percent more revenue than Google.
[mit Material von Stefan Beiersmann, ZDNet.de]
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