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0 pointsnailer5y ago0 comments

Not sure how that responds to or invalidates anything above.

If you think that increases in Mac sales mean that macOS is a growing part of Apple's revenue: it isn't: macOS is dwarfed by other products more every year.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/382136/quarterly-segment...

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yhoiseth5y ago· 1 in thread

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.

nailerOP5y ago

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.

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