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• Philip Elmer-DeWitt
 

July 28, 2014

    

Even in a slow quarter the iPhone by itself generates more revenue than all of Amazon

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After Apple reported its quarterly earnings Tuesday, Slate’s Jordan Weissmann offered several eye-opening comparisons. Among them:

• If the iPhone were a company in its own right, it would be bigger than McDonald’s and Coca Cola combined.
• The iPad generated more revenue last quarter than Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Groupon, and Tesla combined.
• Apple’s sales from hardware accessories is larger than Chipotle’s revenue.
• Apple’s iTunes, software, and services businesses are bigger than eBay.
• While sales of the old iPod line may be shrinking, it’s still 77% larger than Twitter.

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