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Not always. When Wall Street say "iPhone is a x billion dollar business for Apple" they refer to the revenue, not market share. When they say "SAAS is a X billion dollar business" they mean revenue, not the combined market cap of all SAAS companies.

But yes, I think it can be ambiguous.




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