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Because they're a public company and are therefore required by the SEC to provide a certain level of disclosure about the sources of their revenue.



I understand that, but it's not what I meant. I meant is how he knew that other products such as Play store are not profitable? I don't think Google breaks down the profit reports to this level of granularity, so it might be just reported as an ad revenue/profits.




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