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I'd say it depends on your definition of "good", since the revenue seems to suggest they're doing something most people agree with.


By that logic, the online scam industry is shipping the best products of all time. By some estimates they make over a trillion a year.


IMO false equivalence... scams are designed purely to steal money from people, while Apple products carry intrinsic value and benefit to most people.


I realize it's a strained equivalence, but Apple makes a lot of money violating EU anticompetitive laws. Their stranglehold over app distribution is not entirely dissimilar to ransome.




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