Nobody would say they aren't in the PC, tablet or audio business, yet they make more off ads than they do off Macs, iPads, headphones, speakers... everything but iPhone.

I'm skeptical of that. I think I'd need to see some hard data on it.

I spent most of my career in the hardware business. It's really odd to see so many folks unable to understand business models that make money, besides "sell data."

It really seems as if folks can't grok that companies that make money, can do so without necessarily selling data.