And now an Oracle lawyer says that the Android operating system has generated revenue of $31 billion, with $22 billion in profit, Bloomberg reports.
The figures come from an analysis by an Oracle attorney.
The lawyer was disclosing figures that Google did not want to reveal in public.
Previously, analysts at Goldman estimated that Google generated $3 billion in ad revenue from searches on Android devices in 2014. Google doesn't charge device makers for the operating system itself. It makes money through ads sold against searches on Android devices. It also makes money by taking a slice of revenue from content and apps sold through the Google Play store.
This is part of Oracle's ongoing lawsuit with Google. The two companies have been duking it out for years. The suit involves Google's use of a part of a programming language called Java, owned by Oracle. At issue is whether Google illegally copied part of Java. Google at first won most of the case, but the appeals court overturned the initial ruling and the Supreme Court refused to take on the case.
That means Oracle could ultimately win. How much Oracle wins from Google is what this part of the battle is all about.
Oracle is now attempting to calculate and argue damages. Oracle had originally sued for a jaw-dropping $6 billion, but the judge rejected that amount as ridiculously high.