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Airbus planes used to be given away almost for free, it’s first few decades it was entirely state funded.

Apple's federal sales division was one of the strongest sources of revenue during Apple's lowest points, thanks to very good integrated sales & support team that kept islands of Macs in various governmental locations, often doing specialised tasks as graphics/audio workstations and the like.

But to get those contracts there had to be appropriate spending by government, and that's what I meant in my comment.

Airbus does have defense contracts.