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underrated comment :) bold of you to assume they don't have them already only 6 countries have a higher GDP than apple lol if anyone from Apple is in these thr
by chefkd 2y ago
underrated comment :) bold of you to assume they don't have them already only 6 countries have a higher GDP than apple lol
if anyone from Apple is in these threads please sign me up for the beta although i think the first round pretty much knocked me & my family out
- syrgian 2y agoYou are comparing market cap to GDP. You should compare revenue to GDP. Still not a perfect comparison, but much much better. Apple's revenue: 380B. Iran sits at position 40 with 380B GDP in 2022.
- chefkd 2y agoahhh makes sense thank you for catching that Iran keeps popping up all over HN past few days haha still kind of crazy to think Iran and it's entire oil reserves that power idk how many households produce the same amount of revenue as 175k people
- throwaway11460 2y agoThat oil is sold unprocessed and won't be powering anything unless it goes through a fairly expensive processing and logistics chain. Iran is also extremely inefficient and unproductive - it's a state after all. Similarly, African raw materials form the core of many computers and yet Africa is still poor - because the raw material itself isn't that useful.