Comment by lapetitejort

3 years ago

It should be noted that Apple also has an ad wing that brought in $4 billion in 2021 [0].

0: https://www.barrons.com/articles/apple-revenue-ads-516478777...

The ad revenue is mostly on App Store searches, where the intent is provided during the request.

That Ads devision can operate in a privacy first mindset while still seeing huge growth YoY. Where-as if Google operated in a don't be evil/privacy first mindset, they'd loose substantial revenue and likely no longer be profitable.