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TheSummerlin t1_j7dmoej wrote

I may be looking at this wrong, but where is the income from tech sales?

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SUPRVLLAN t1_j7e9710 wrote

There is none.

Google hardware is a loss leader.

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halibfrisk t1_j7edkv0 wrote

There’s revenue / income from tech sales regardless of whether it generates a profit or loss.

>Google’s hardware products, including the Pixel smartphone, the Chromebook laptop, and Nest smart home devices, generated a total of $19.6 billion in revenue in the same year.

https://kinsta.com/google-revenue/

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lucun t1_j7eoif3 wrote

Alphabet likes to hide costs and net income of segments unlike how granular they break down revenue. Might be a good thing since it can shield those segments from greedy investors and competitors. It's also hard to breakdown as I've heard they do have engineers that do work affecting multiple Google segments at the same time, which makes it hard to attribute costs accurately.

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