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Apple Reportedly Storing Over 8 Million Terabytes of iCloud Data on Google Servers
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Why do people want Apple to do everything in-house? They don't run their own fabs, they don't make displays, they don't build all their own datacenters. Why? Because those are commodity services that require massive investment and have short lifecycles. Apple is much better suited as a customer that can resell the value they create from those commodites at high margin.
This is very good. Use data centres that already exist as opposed to chopping trees down in some cases to build new ones. Big back end systems are used by a lot of different big name corporations. Broadband networks are the same for example.
Googles security along with Amazon's are usually good too, well they seem to resist most hacking attempts.
And those who don't like Google should simply ask themselves, have they had 'any' issues with iCloud?
Googles security along with Amazon's are usually good too, well they seem to resist most hacking attempts.
And those who don't like Google should simply ask themselves, have they had 'any' issues with iCloud?
It's all encrypted, so while it's on Google's servers, they don't have access to it.
Google total revenues 2020 - 182 billions
Google cloud revenues 2020 - 13 billions - 7.2% of total revenues.
Apple pays 300 millions - 2.3% of all google cloud revenues.
300 millions doesn't sound that much considering what it would cost Apple to do it themselves.
Google pays Apple between $8 billion and $12 billion per year to be the default search engine on Apple products.
Google cloud revenues 2020 - 13 billions - 7.2% of total revenues.
Apple pays 300 millions - 2.3% of all google cloud revenues.
300 millions doesn't sound that much considering what it would cost Apple to do it themselves.
Google pays Apple between $8 billion and $12 billion per year to be the default search engine on Apple products.
I thought Apple was going to be investing in their own data centers years ago. I can imagine that this route, with a deal, has to be significantly cheaper these days. I get the security and all, but not terribly happy that some of my $ goes to Google.
That said, iCloud has been working really well for me and my family. Been using it as my primary cloud storage for years now. My whole family is nearing the 400GB mark.
That said, iCloud has been working really well for me and my family. Been using it as my primary cloud storage for years now. My whole family is nearing the 400GB mark.
This.
Alphabet is still losing money on their cloud business because they have to be constantly investing in it
Google Cloud vs. AWS: Two vastly different profit pictures
Google Cloud's operating income will improve in 2021, but margins won't approach the ad business anytime soon. Meanwhile, AWS is an operating income hero that subsidizes the profit picture for Amazon as a whole.
www.zdnet.com
Alphabet, Google's parent, detailed how much its ad business subsidizes its cloud expansion. In the fourth quarter, Google Cloud, which includes platform, infrastructure, and Workspace, delivered an operating loss of $1.24 billion on revenue of $3.83 billion, up from $2.61 billion a year ago.
Google’s cloud business lost more than $5.5 billion last year, but it’s growing fast
Google’s cloud business made $13 billion last year, but it also took a major loss.
www.theverge.com
Large company uses 3rd party cloud storage - what a shock!!
It might have something to do with the fact that if you go out of your way to not use Google products, and spend more to get their competitor's product, you still end up supporting them.
It's not like hardware where you can look up who makes the modem or the storage of the device. Nor is it like search or browsers where one can simply use a different website or app. The end-user has no way of knowing if their purchases are helping to fund Google's business. Worse, they are being sold a branding that suggests everything is Apple.
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Anytime Google is involved I have privacy concerns. But even if that isn’t an issue, I don’t want Google growing in power and wealth.
They do build and operate data centers…but you have to understand the sheer scale of data these days.
It's a shame that they don't anticipate growth as they keep marketing their services and build their own data centres.
I found a workaround for the "Ok Google" trigger, go to Siri shortcuts, add " Hey Siri, Ok Google," connect it to the Google Assistant app, and now you can trigger Ok Google by saying, "Hey Siri, Ok Google."
Ping pong financials. Google (gladly) pays Apple a fee for the search engine, while Apple shovels money to google for the usage amounting to 8 million terabytes.
People will still get their panties in a bunch, facts be damned.
I guess the servers running in the basement on Quadra 950s just couldn't handle the load anymore.
040s for ever!
040s for ever!
It also seems that Apple thinks Google to be a lesser threat than Amazon to have chosen Google Cloud over Amazon to store data.