Google To Merge Honeycomb and Gingerbread 158
eldavojohn writes "In Barcelona, Google's Eric Schmidt has been revealing future plans for Google, saying that the next release will merge smartphone and tablet versions of its mobile operating system Android. Aside from bragging about Android's growth, Schmidt tiptoed around a question of Google acquiring Twitter, instead offering the very nebulous statement that YouTube doubled its revenues last year."
Re:Meaningless statement (Score:5, Informative)
Youtube doubled its revenues last year. Emphasis added.
The statement says nothing about profits, or profit margins; it's entirely possible to make a $1 billion profit one year, double your revenues the next year and suddenly be losing money. In Youtube's case it is probably a very good sign though, since no one really had any idea 5 years ago how to go about monetizing it.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:5, Informative)
But it's only on the Nexus S. They were going to release it for the Nexus One and others, but those plans seem to be on hold. I'm using 2.3 on my N1 via the nightly Cyanogen builds but it's definitely got a bunch of quirks in it still. I'm betting Google is going to just release 2.4 as their next "standard" release that's widely distributed.
Re:Meaningless statement (Score:2, Informative)
Nope, those come out of revenue and would give you a loss, or a negative profit if you like. It would not give you negative revenue.
Re:Where's Gingerbread? (Score:4, Informative)
Still, most Nexus Ones were HTC-made, so it's probable that Google doesn't have as much leverage as you might think.
The whole point of Nexus One (and now also Nexus S), aside from being "officially rootable", is that they run stock Android with no modifications. HTC was only involved in putting the hardware together for Nexus One; they don't control its software, nor is their participation required in updating it. Not pushing that update is solely Google's fault.