It's not just $300m. It's $300 for storage. I'm sure they spend more on the GCP platform. They also use AWS, which is over $350m a year. That contract ends in

It's not just $300m. It's $300 for storage. I'm sure they spend more on the GCP platform. They also use AWS, which is over $350m a year. That contract ends in a year or two. Afaik, they don't run on azure anymore. It's not hard to believe they're spending $1B+ on external cloud partners. At $57B net revenue ($274B), a high margin space such as the cloud services could make sense. Although if they're not selling it to the public it would only account for 1-2% net revenue. Apple likes to learn from companies.. Soon there will be an Apple cloud using low energy ARM (M1X) servers. Let's call it the "Digital Apple Tree". Maybe a small reference to the DAT recorder, as Apple likes music. Of course this last part is just made up ;-)