&gt;<i>Let&#x27;s be realistic. The only real profitable revenue stream for Apple is the phone and app store.</i><p>The App Store, while big in itself, is insignificant to Apple&#x27;s revenue stream. Which makes me think you are not really familiar with how it breaks down.<p>Apple&#x27;s revenue is ~230 billion. Alphabet is around ~80 billion.<p>iPhone revenues were 68 of that, the iPad is 9%+, the Mac another 9%, services is 8% and other products (Apple TV, Apple Watch) around 5%.<p>You could kill the iPhone today and still have a killer company the size of Alphabet.<p>As for the &quot;blip of the radar&quot; regarding the Apple cloud services:
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