Apple's iPhone business makes more money than the WHOLE OF MICROSOFT

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tech writer mg siegler noted remarkable fact:

apple's iphone business alone bigger microsoft.

not windows. not office. microsoft.

think that.

iphone did not exist 5 years ago. , it's bigger company that, 15 years ago, dragged court , threatened forcible break-up because had amassed unassailable , unthinkably profitable monopoly.

iphone appears considerably more profitable microsoft.

in december quarter, apple's iphone business generated $24.4 billion of revenue. microsoft's whole company, meanwhile, windows office servers xbox, generated $20.9 billion.

if assume apple generates same operating profit margin on iphone business generates on overall business--38%--the iphone business generated $9.3 billion of profit in december quarter.

of microsoft, meanwhile, generated $8.2 billion.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/iphone-bigger-than-microsoft-2012-2

 

seems microsoft's stranglehold on tech world loosening

 

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