Today in class we had an interesting lesson on MIS, and how it’s becoming increasingly important for consumers and companies for a variety of reasons.
This also applies to the widely known for the Android operating system for mobile phones and now, tablets and netbooks.
For those that don’t know, Android is provided for free to developers and is an open source program, so if you and I know how to program then we can get the program and mod it to our liking; however like the Disney photo album example, the development of the system certainly isn’t free, especially when they started from scratch and updates the OS version once in a while. So, how do they cover their costs?
Blatantly obvious answer: mobile ads
Everyone knows how much money Google makes from their ads on a bajillion of websites, and now through their mobile platform they can sustain the expenses of Android development, and even possibly earn an income on that even though they don’t charge users money for using their OS.
Read more about it here
Source: Newsweek