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Comment by immibis

5 days ago

None of them are close to 30 billion!!!

Your profit is whatever your revenue minus costs. Plenty of app stores have operated in the red that we know this isn’t trivial to get right. It definitely is nowhere near negligible as patent asserted. I’m frustrated by how dumb HN is getting lately.

  • You are trying to tell me that all of that stuff combined makes up more than a small fraction of $30 billion per year.