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by thirdtruck 4957 days ago
Comparing that with the profits from a single opening weekend of iPhone sales (a much larger number), I think we're getting a pretty good deal.
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This makes no sense, those two things have nothing in common, might as well compare their annual expenses to apples and oranges sales in the year.
I couldn't find global stats, but at 2.72 billion[1] and 3 billion[2] USD respectively, the apple and orange industries have revenues far in excess of Mozilla's.

[1] http://www.agmrc.org/commodities__products/fruits/apples/com...

[2] http://www.ibisworld.com/industry/default.aspx?indid=23

I do consider it a better comparison than the original, at least, which reduced to "$100 million" vs. "undefined".
Hardware sales are vastly different than software sales. Revenue is much higher in hardware based sales due to cost of materials.