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Apple is a hardware company. Google just releases as much software as they can and sees what catches on since any additional user spending additional time being tracked is a win for them. Apple writes software to make their hardware more appealing.

Bad android sales doesn't affect Google. Bad iPhone sales would tank Apple.




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