By Larry Dignan, ZD Net
Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster reckons that iOS will only provide 2 percent of Google’s total revenue in 2012, or $4.5 billion. Apple is likely to push Google Maps out of the way next week at its WWDC powwow in what’s a long march toward nixing the search giant—friend now mobile foe—as a default service provider. The longer war between Apple and Google will revolve around courting developers. Bottom line: Developers will follow the money. With Apple developers garner more app revenue—folks pay for iOS apps, but Android versions are often free. Google will have to push its iOS wares through the app store. Any built-in service will eventually get the boot.
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