You&#x27;re not looking at the whole board. There are other companies that make money off of Android. Qualcomm, for instance.<p>They&#x27;ve made money off of Android by being the dominant SoC provider in the Android ecosystem (could&#x27;ve gone another way in a hypothetical Android-free world) and because Android pushed the smartphone market to grow faster than the alternatives (Symbian, Windows Mobile, etc) would have.