Dan 09475930

Just by eyeing the bar chart at the beginning of the article and measuring revenues it looks like the Mac/IPad revenues in Q12014 are about $12.5B and for the Surface line about $500M. If you compare that to the last Q1 numbers from 2019 the Mac/IPad revenues were about $10.3B and the Surface line about $1.6B. Apple's products have shrunk 17.6% when comparing quarters while Microsoft's has grown 225%. ?? I don't think anyone here doubts that Apple has an amazing business but if you added trend lines to the bar graph it would show Apple's Mac/IPad revenue trend line going down slightly over time while Microsoft's trend line would be going up. Tbh i'm not really sure why Apple's "other" or "wearables" category was included in the bar graph. Does Apple have tremendous scale? Absolutely. But they haven't been able to grow at all with Mac/IPad in a very long time. Has Microsoft's surface line grown? - yes but more than likely not as much as it should have. But still it's weird to read an article about "Editorial: Why Microsoft Surface isn't growing after seven years of trying" which isn't exactly true when another article should be written that says "Editorial: Why Apple's Mac/IPad products have shrunk after seven years of trying."