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by yhoiseth 1874 days ago
I don’t have access to the statistic you are referring to, so we might be talking past each other. But, as far as I can tell, macOS is a growing part of Apple’s revenue, at least over the last year:

According to https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/04/apple-reports-second-..., Apple “posted a March quarter record revenue of $89.6 billion, up 54 percent year over year …”.

Mac, on the other hand, grew by 69 percent year over year.

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Sorry about that, the site lets users in from Google for free, but puts ad walls up for direct links. Sneaky.

You're speaking about raw numbers.

From that report:

$47.94 billion: iPhone (Up 65%) $9.1 billion: Mac (Up 70% YOY) $7.81 billion: iPad (up 79% YOY)

To let us know what Apple prioritises, though, we need to look at percentages of the operating unit as a percent of Apple revenue.

Mac revenue was 4.8 in 2014, 5.2% in the most recent figure I could find.

https://barefigur.es/companies/apple/products/

We can also look at company reorgs like getting rid of the macOS team, advertisements steering customers away from macOS, and other public facts.