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by cperciva 3346 days ago
Misleading. Sure, technically McDonald's doesn't make much money from selling burgers because most of the burgers are sold by franchisees. But by the same argument, Amazon doesn't make any money from selling EC2 instances -- those are sold by Amazon Web Services Inc.

When people talk about McDonald's "selling burgers", what they mean is McDonald's and its franchisees.
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harryh 3346 days ago
Amazon Web Services Inc. is wholly owned by Amazon, Inc.

That is not true of the franchisees. That's a pretty big difference.

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maxerickson 3346 days ago
The fifth sentence of the article is Peel back the layers and you’ll find that the corporate entity is actually one hell of a real estate company.

I don't think it is trying to mislead (or doing it by being sloppy), it's examining how McDonald's is structured (both the branded operations overall and the corporation).

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