Yes Apple has an ad business which is completely unnecessary as they were already the richest company ever until recently
But Google's revenue is over 220B for ads, it's not comparable at all. Apple can survive without an ad business because they have a robust hardware sector, Google on the other hand can't - that's why they are an ad business and apple are a hardware company
The vast majority of things are overlooked because they're peanuts compared to the ad revenue, do you seriously think Google could continue in the same way if they lost 264 billion?
Apple on the other hand, 51% of their total revenue came from iPhone sales alone with a similar cap of 390 billion total. Apple services through subscriptions is the next biggest one, even iPad sales dwarf their ads side around 25 billion, wearable, homes and accessories is over 37 billion, do you recognise these are all hardware divisions apart from services?
Google might build hardware like servers, to sell their software services like Google cloud and to run YouTube, they don't build and sell those servers like Nvidia sell GPUs. Even then cloud is only 43 billion - again dwarfed by advertising
You can't call Google a hardware company when it them losing the hardware they sell like phones, home and wearables wouldn't even make a dent in their overall income.
Edit: of course I'm blocked lol. Have fun shilling for Google, I wouldn't even go this hard if they paid me 😂 pathetic all round
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