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You can't compare the generated revenue like this. Apple is selling a lot of hardware. Microsoft as well as Google are selling very little hardware.

Thats a bit like comparing the revenue of a real estate agent with the revenue of a developer selling apps on the app store. A developer of a simple app making 200k revenue / year has probably a higher profit than a real estate agent with the same amount of revenue. Selling one house to a client costs you 200k and you get 3% of that… Does this make sense?




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