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You’re off by a factor of 5. It’s 0.016% of their annual revenue.



That's... actually right. Not sure how I messed it up. In that case, I also retract what I said about their Dutch revenue--it seems way less likely to be true at that percentage.


You were basically correct, you just got lost track of the units you were using, we've all been there! $56.7 million per week, annualized for a whole year, comes to $2,948,400,000, which is almost exactly 0.8% of Apple's 2021 revenue of $365B. (Of course, the 50 million fine isn't weekly, but the total max fine.)


I'm not so sure. We're a 17.5 million people country and iOS has a 40% marketshare according to figures from last January.

If we round up that's 7 million iPhones, might be some more tablets but I'd guess negligible. A max of 50 million euros in fines will definitely be a substantial amount of their App Store income.


> You’re off by a factor of 5.

Surely that would be a factor of 50.


Oof, yes.


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