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snittyyesterday at 9:42 PM1 replyview on HN

Apple also has an entire international retail arm.


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pembrookyesterday at 9:54 PM

And an entire desktop OS and desktop software suite in pretty much all categories to compete with Microsoft. Also their hardware business is roughly 50-100X the size of Google's hardware business in scale and distribution.

The headcount analog for Google is Apple. And if you subtract out the retail employees Apple looks surprisingly efficient, having much less non-retail staff than Google (although both heavily use contractors).

Meta on the other hand...is pretty much the definition of bloat.

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