[potatoproduct]

Apple is an advertising company.

https://ads.apple.com/

Generates billions for Apple and is growing rapidly, since they implemented increasingly aggressive "privacy features" to block their competitors.

[pdpi]

Apple has an advertising business. That’s materially different from having advertising as your core revenue stream.

Likewise, Google has a consumer electronics business, but they’re not a consumer electronics company.

[red-iron-pine]

billions of dollars means it is a core revenue stream