Th3pwn3rConsidering everything will be coming out of China from Apple I don't know about any advantages for build quality.

RandallFlaggApple is making / building a plethora of reasons to go to their platforms. It is baked into their charter / strategy, they are primarily a hardware manufacturer and everything they do is meant to forward the goal of selling more hardware. So, when apple makes a search engine it will ultimately be about selling more Apple hardware.

bugThis stopped being true when they wrote iTunes. They still sell hardware, but they're also a software/services company now. I mean, whatever you do on their platform, they get 30%. That's a higher margin than hardware commands even after you factor in the costs of running their store.

RandallFlaggIn the real world, things are not black and white. What you are saying would be like saying Google stopped being an advertising platform when they launched the Nexus.

The vast, vast majority of Apple's income is from hardware sales. Don't confuse the tail with the dog.

bugwww.investopedia.com/apple-s-5-most-profitable-lines-of-business-4684130

$56bn from iPhone sales, $46bn from services. And that's revenue, I'm pretty sure services are way more profitable.

XuperNo body can beat google as search Engine.

RandallFlaggThis isn't politics bud, reading comprehension matters. From the very article you linked to :

"For fiscal year 2019, the company's iPhone business accounted for approximately 54.7% of total sales. Apple’s growing services segment made up approximately 17.7% of revenue, ahead of the Mac, which generated 9.8% of total revenue. "

You might also want to look into what those services are. They include things like warranties for their hardware (Apple's vaunted AppleCare).

bugSo what do you understand from that? Because the way I read it is both hardware and software are significant sources of revenue for Apple these days. That's enough for me to stop calling Apple a hardware company.

RandallFlaggSo if OnStar makes money for General Motors, you gonna stop calling GM a car manufacturer? OnStar (a subsidiary) is worthless without GM cars. Apple services would be worthless without iPhones and Macs.

Getting these the relevance of these things confused is what I was referring to about the tail and the dog. These services are all about enhancing the value of their primary product - a car, a phone, a Mac.

Google's primary product is its customer.

XajelSo, now when I want to search I say "I need to Google that", then I'll say "I need to Apple that" and "Lets Apple that".