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by IBM 3691 days ago
Facebook and Google Search are ad businesses, and looking at those businesses they're very small compared to Apple. There's also tons of competition there already and it's outside of the skillset of Apple.

Apple is making a car not self-driving technology. They may develop self-driving technology, but the business will be making a finished product that they sell to customers, not licensing technology to others (which is what Google is doing).
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jbigelow76 3691 days ago 

    >Facebook and Google Search are ad businesses, and looking at those businesses they're very small compared to Apple.
FB maybe, but Google? Back in February Google was larger than Apple in terms of market cap. As of right now Apple is back on top, $506B to Google's $491B, explain again how Google is "very small compared to Apple"?
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IBM 3691 days ago
Google's business is 90% ads and they did $16.35 billion in profit in the last year compared to Apple's $50 billion (from Yahoo Finance). Should Apple focus their efforts to get a chunk of the ad $ out there or focus on a business that utilizes their competencies?
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