Of course, but a lot of it has to do with scale as well. There's a lot of non tax stuff that Apple can do, that smaller companies can't either, e.g. negotiating

Of course, but a lot of it has to do with scale as well. There's a lot of non tax stuff that Apple can do, that smaller companies can't either, e.g. negotiating procurement deals on certain electronics forcing the supplier to work on razor-thin margins.