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If Apple got a 13 billion dollar fine every single month, it would take 22 years for it to exhaust their networth.


Market cap is not the same as net worth. Apple has around $166B in cash or cash-like reserves, so they'd run out much faster than that.


Is that more than their monthly EU revenue? I guess they would just decide not to do business in the EU in that case.


This is a pointless statistic. I assume you mean market capitalization by net worth and if they were fined that much every month their market cap would immediately drop by 90% because their costs in paying fines would take away 90% of their profit.


So you are saying they could pay a 13B dollar fine every month and still make ~1B dollar profit?


Apple makes 5-7B/ mo in net revenue (roughly close enough to profit for this purpose), so no.


Instead of asking a question why don't you just make your point?


I think the point is in the answer to the question? If the answer isn’t correct there is no point.


I want them to make the point explicit so I can explain why they are a greedy leech. If they keep the point ambiguous by asking a rhetorical question they can move goalposts.


Exactly. What a doodoo statement


Most statistics are pointless. This is just a representation of what 13 billion is.


Why parrot things that are pointless? Market cap is not "net worth", so what was the point of the comparison?




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