Apple

[Vanraw]

I wouldn't say Google is an advertising company -- I'd call them a data company. Advertising is just one more thing you can do with a bunch of data. They wouldn't want to compete with Siri if they could instead simply sell them access to data.


And yes, Apple is still a hardware company. They do make software, but it's for their hardware. You wouldn't say Tivo is a software company or Samsung is a software company, even though they have software for their devices. When I hear "software company", I think of a company that sells software which runs on other people's hardware, which Apple mostly tries to avoid. It's probably only with great reluctance that iTunes runs on Windows.

Yea my only point is revenue priorities. Most everything Google does is to generate ad dollars. They give away android for the ad dollars.... etc. Most of what apple does seems to be focused on selling new hw. Even iTunes, though it accidently became a revenue stream outside of hw sales. You would think apple would learn from that.

The only way apple takes over the TV market is if they be I e a service and software company....... which they could do.