You can thank Google's new head of search, Prabhakar Raghavan, for a lot of the hard work making Drive into what it is today.
Gmail was the seventh Google product to hit 1 billion monthly users, and today that number stands at over 1.5 billion total.
Unlike the Apple iPhone, there are other ways to download apps on Google's Android platform without using its official store but for most people the Play Store is the simplest way to do it. The Play Store had around 1.1 billion active monthly users as of the last check, according to Bernstein data published in January this year.
The company takes a 30% cut from all app sales, and the same amount from in-app purchases a practice that has recently come under heavy fire.
Don't forget all of the Play Store services Google offers too, such as books and movies, which also nets it a healthy pay day.
That's partly thanks to Google's continued work to update Maps and a surprisingly poor start for Apple's rival product.
In April, Google said it was adding 3 million new Meet users a day and was seeing over 100 million daily Meet participants.
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