Apple have always been a hardware company, like Google have always been a softwa...

steve1977 · 2025-10-15T14:57:11 1760540231

Google has always been a advertising company

tempest_ · 2025-10-15T20:14:25 1760559265

It wasnt always but its defiantly has been the host for the DoubleClick parasite it ingested in the early 2000s

hinkley · 2025-10-15T22:51:02 1760568662

advertising company/feedlot to hoard good engineers and keep them from wandering off and writing a competitor.

CharlesW · 2025-10-15T16:02:14 1760544134

> Apple have always been a hardware company…

Apple (post Apple II) has always been a systems company, which is much different. Dell is a hardware company.