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Apple gets money from both their monopoly on user data and their high prices. That’s why it’s above Microsoft and Google in market cap, even though it doesn’t have nearly as much infrastructure and reach.

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vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
It designs its own hardware, though.

I’m not saying it’s a virtuous company, just a bit better than others (which is not cheap if you’re not oligarch’s blonde daughter).

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- black0ut@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It doesn’t. It designs part of the chips that go into their phones.
  
  Google also designs chips that go into its phones, and Microsoft has also designed chips and security co processors that have gone into PCs.
  
  (Of course, I’d never consider a Microsoft “security co processor” secure, nor an apple or google one).
  
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  - vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    I would also argue that we should stop humanizing companies. They don’t have human traits, they’re not virtuous, they’re just there to take your money and go.
    
    Agree on that.
    
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