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This appears to count all the employees of all the suppliers Apple buys anything from and the entire "app economy" including people who write apps for non-Apple
by opencl 7y ago
This appears to count all the employees of all the suppliers Apple buys anything from and the entire "app economy" including people who write apps for non-Apple platforms.
- alpb 7y agoThis is like Google counting everyone who indirectly works on developing of a website that displays/sells via Google Ads, which is the majority of the digital economy, am I right?
- DeepYogurt 7y agoIt probably means that apple employees work for google too
- robertAngst 7y agoTo be fair, Apple forces you to use their proprietary hardware and software. This means you must join the Apple ecosystem to compete, even if you strongly disagree with their practices.