Oracle: Google made $22 billion profit with Android winst

Oracle has opened up a booklet about the Mountain View company’s income and expenses in its copyright lawsuit against Google. Google is said to have achieved a total of 31 billion dollars in revenue and 22 billion in profit with Android. Google also paid $1 billion to Apple.

The amount of $1 billion would have been paid to Apple in 2014 to keep Google as the default search engine in iOS, Bloomberg writes. Oracle disclosed the amounts in a lawsuit over Google’s claimed use of Java in Android without paying for it. Google opposed the publication, stating that Oracle is relying on confidential internal financial documents.

Oracle uses the size of the amounts to support its claims of infringement. Oracle is likely aiming for more than a billion dollars in damages. Google itself has never disclosed what the company earns from Android and tried to avoid publishing the figures because it would have “significant negative effects” on the company.

Oracle’s lawyers claimed that Google was in a rush to start developing Android and was in a neck-and-neck race with Apple, according to Bloomberg. According to the lawyers’ statement, a Google technician would have said at the time that the alternatives to Java were worthless. Android appeared in 2008 and brings in money through advertisements and the Play Store.