What If Google Started Charging For Android?

newsfeedback@fool.com (Evan Niu, CFA), The Motley Fool
Wed, 07/18/2018 - 1:52pm

Arguably one of the most disruptive moves that Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) subsidiary Google ever pulled off was offering the mobile operating system that it acquired, Android, to third-party manufacturers free of any type of licensing fee. That flew in the face of Microsoft's long-standing business model, which was to develop operating systems and license them out to device makers.

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