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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by nthuser on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @03:07AM (#18854075)
Again, Apple has a more diversified revenue stream than Alphabet and it is growing. Contrary to what you are trying to imply, Apple is actually more successful than Alphabet. The difference is they don't tell the world about their internal projects.
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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by jean-cs on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @05:42AM (#18854647)
> Again, Apple has a more diversified revenue stream than Alphabet and it is growing.

Based on what?

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by nthuser on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @06:12AM (#18854744)
iPhone sales generate 59% of Apple's revenue, while ads generate 86% of Alphabet's revenue.
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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by joshuamorton on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:15PM (#18857242)
Hardware sales generate 80% of apples revenue. You can't combine all ads (google vs. other domains) and not combine different hardware types.
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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by nthuser on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @12:58PM (#18857689)
Even if we did it that way, Apple still comes out ahead.

Also, that 86% is basically from Google Search ads and YouTube. YouTube's quarterly revenue is estimated to be just under $4 billion. That puts Google Search ads at around 72%, which is still higher than the iPhone's 59%.

The notion that Alphabet's "other" projects succeeded while Apple's languished is completely baseless.

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Re:Capitalism the Apple Way vs. Capitalism the Google Way (2... by joshuamorton on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @01:19PM (#18857917)
It also includes ad network ads on non google properties (double click and such), which is arguably more diverse than iPhone an iPad.

Google's last quarterly report says 24bn in revenue from Google properties, and ~5bn from non-google properties. If we add in that YT is a separate property too, we get ~60% from Google, ~12% from youtube, ~15% from network, ~14% from hardware/android/cloud.

(I work at Google, but I am using public figures from the Q3 investor relations document and your analyst number for YT revenue).

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