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Most profitable company in the tech world creates new product and uses prior manufacturing skill, brand awareness/loyalty, device lock-in, advertising experience and retail channels to sell it and makes more profit that arbitrary list of companies in different business areas. What's the point?

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Based on the lively discussion generated in this thread - because it's interesting.

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Sure. But it's hardly suprising nor is it a useful comparison to say airpods make more revenue than Twitter.

[MBCook]

The point is that one little product is HUGE. Just MASSIVE. People may not think it’s very big because it’s such a small share of Apple’s revenue but it would be a success everyone talked about if a third party had got those numbers.