As I compose this the night prior to you’re reading it, the gigantic caucus clusterf in Iowa is still continuous and no official results are anywhere in sight.
Not so much. There’s clearly more to come, so for now let’s look at the 2nd biggest tech news yesterday. Google released its quarterly incomes and did something it never ever has prior to: really offered financial information for YouTube and even provided some color on its hardware service. The agreement is it did so due to the fact that overall the business didn’t meet expectations for revenue, so it wished to provide everybody something else to take note of. We won’t be tricked by Google’s outright misdirection, which is …
Simply joking. Naturally we’re going to pay attention to the shiny new numbers. Though to be reasonable, you should know my attitude towards most financial outcomes is to inform you that unless you’re a considerable financier, you need to only care insofar as the outcomes state something about the products and services the company is selling.
We’ll have analysis of YouTube’s numbers up on the site today, so rather I’ll just pay a little more attention to the Android bit: a total of $80 billion paid to Android designers, which is considerably less than the $155 billion Apple has actually paid out by means of the iOS App Store.
Even if you account for Google allowing designers to utilize their o