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All of you have joined an argument that is completely fictional. I am amazed that someone can still fall for “Apple is a hardware company” bait. Both Google an
by ogurechny 1y ago
All of you have joined an argument that is completely fictional. I am amazed that someone can still fall for “Apple is a hardware company” bait.
Both Google and Apple control enormous number of devices, the data on them (or data collected by them), their software, and their users. They make money by selling you tiny bit of access to that, directly or indirectly. End of story. Should I remind you how much being special to privacy restrictions costs Facebook?
- transcriptase 1y agoTake advertising away from both. Which one would crumble vs contend with a few worse than expected quarters. Google is something like 75% ad revenue, <5% hardware. Apple is something like 75% hardware, <5% ad revenue.