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May 4, 2012 05:02 pm GMT

Android Lost Money Every Quarter In 2010, Made $97.7M In Q1

gavel2.jpgGoogle has always been pretty cagey about the financials behind its Android mobile OS -- and data that has emerged over the last week could give us an indication why: it's been losing money from day one.In the lawsuit between Oracle and Google -- in which Oracle claims Google, in its Android platform, infringes on copyrights and patents related to Java -- a judge and jury are trying to work out what kind of damages might be awarded to Oracle. That case took a turn for the specific yesterday, whenJudge William Alsup (as reported byReuters)read out excerpts of Google documents that determinedthat the platform produced a net loss for every quarter of 2010 -- and "a big loss for the whole year".

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