Apple iOS will get started Forty percent of Google's mobile sales, says analyst

Apple iOS will get started Forty percent of Google's mobile sales, says analyst Google have arch-rival Apple saying thanks to at a huge chunk of the company's mobile revenue in 2012.

The search giant's licensing handles Apple over its Maps and appearance apps are now a proper cash cow when the iPhone debuted in 2007. In 2010 won't be any exception.

In an investors note released yesterday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster said he expects Google to earn around $4.5 billion in mobile sales in 2011. And iOS will start working the largest or on the largest chunk of this.

iOS will are the cause of around 40 % of Google's total mobile search revenue, or $1.6 billion, estimates Munster, which ultimately means iOS will generate around 2 percent of Google's total sales for any year.

But what occurs if Apple replaces Google Maps which consists of own in-house map app? Research studies suggest that Apple has cooked up a 3D Maps app set in order to change best nexus 4 case Google's app as the default on iOS devices. Regardless, Munster doesn't expect any significant changes to your numbers.

Google Maps will still survive for the App Store, freely accessible to all to download, the analyst said. Google recently said that its Maps service has attracted through 1 billion users in the world. Google has a host of other apps for iOS users, nonetheless the Maps app can be to stay the most popular among them despite that custom nexus 4 case weeks longer the iOS default.

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And Google isn't standing still with Maps.

The company unveiled yesterday a myriad of innovations in direction of the service, including 3D images, offline use, plus shots of Street View.

Still, the move by Apple to restore Google Maps as being the default have been precisely the latest try and squeeze away search giant.

"Moving forward, we expect an extended tug-of-war between Apple and Google," Munster said. "We believe Bing is more likely to push i will get Nexus 4 Leather Case to its apps over the App Store, including Chrome, while Apple will continue to innovate around discovery over a iPhone through Siri. Net-net, the world thinks the core buyer on iOS will remain largely unchanged just because Google Maps is replaced."