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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday December 18, 2025 @12:31PM (#46315813)
I'm skeptical of that. I think I'd need to see some hard data on it.

I spent most of my career in the hardware business. It's really odd to see so many folks unable to understand business models that make money, besides "sell data."

It really seems as if folks can't grok that companies that make money, can do so without necessarily selling data.

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Re:Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem? by benoau on Thursday December 18, 2025 @01:05PM (#46316258)
The $20ish billion was revealed through Google's antitrust. That by itself accounts for a fifth of their total annual profit, ignoring all the App Store ads, News ads etc.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-...

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