Google now has a ‘multibillion-dollar’ hardware business, has paid $80B to Android app devs

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge “We have no idea how much money Google makes from hardware,” Marketwatch wrote two years ago. That’s no longer entirely true — the company’s hardware division is a “multibillion-dollar” business, the company revealed during parent Alphabet’s Q4 earnings call (via 9to5Google).
That suggests that hardware rakes in at least $2 billion, but could theoretically be a bit more: Google’s hardware businesse