Ben Gilbert: commitment

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…Yeah. For searches that originate on your phone, we will give a little rev share to both the carrier and the OEM, the handset maker. Yep. This was not widely publicized at the time, as you can imagine, but Bill Gurley wrote a blog post where he had heard from friends that Google was paying carriers and OEMs to use Android, even though Android was free. He wrote this incredible blog post about it called The Less Than Free Business Model. He basically predicted that Android's going to run away with this here. If you’re a carrier or an OEM, sure there’s a segment of the market that’s going to demand Apple, that’s fine, but Microsoft is dead, Palm is dead, Blackberry is dead. There’s no way you can compete with free, let alone less than free, where they are paying you to take something of value for free.…

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