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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 103 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Google: $2.7 billion

Apple: $14.34 billion

[–] WalrusDragonOnABike 58 points 10 months ago (7 children)

Google 2024 Revenue: $328.28B

Apple 2024 Revenue: $385.60B

I'm sure they'll behave in the future thanks to these Big fines...

[–] crystenn@lemmy.ml 140 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Revenue doesn't equal profit. Apple's 2023 net profit was 96b, so a 14b fine is a substantial portion of their overall profits (~15%).

Of course, they're not hurting by any stretch of the imagination, 82b is still a STUPID amount of money, but we should be getting the facts and numbers correct

[–] shelf 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Still less than the lowest tax bracket in the US

[–] explore_broaden@midwest.social 21 points 10 months ago

Yeah but also this is only for their EU profit, so it’s really an even higher percentage.

It doesn’t really make sense to talk about money they made in other countries when talking about these fines, as if they make 5 billion in profit in country X and get fined 6 billion, they would still have lost money for operating in the country regardless of how much money they made other places. Since they lost money in the country, that fine would be high enough for them to want to fix their law breaking or totally pull out of the country, and so the fine accomplishes its purpose.

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