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Actually that's not true. Apple made $6 billion in profit vs Google's $8.44 billion in revenue (and $2.54 billion in profit).

sources: - http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_17152005 - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-18/apple-profit-rises-...

Apple is (mostly) a hardware company - they don't compete with Google in any meaningful way.

Facebook does, at least in the sense that both operate in the web/user space, and both have advertising as their fundamental source of revenue.

Wouldn't you say that Android is currently the biggest competitor to the iPhone?

Apple & Google are both pretty big companies and will likely be competing in the same space given the number of products they both own. Apple's iAds are a direct competitor to Adsense on mobile devices, Apple TV/Google TV, etc.

Well, with Steve jobs likely not living through the next 4 years, and Facebook still an infant, I still think that the future is unset.