The iPhone doesn’t exist without mobile networks that telecommunications companies used government subsidies to build. (The same subsidies, by the way, that some like to complain weren’t spent on FTTH. Personally, I think mobile was the right call.)
We're spending public money on every corporation. Who built the roads their goods travel on? Who educated their workers?
We're spending the money less directly perhaps.
Apple’s products are almost entirely dependent on the internet and telecommunications networks and tech, all of which was funded and researched by the government.
Are you sure govts never bought an Iphone?
Governments buy iPhones to use. The US government gives bigpharma money and tax benefits as a way to encourage R&D.
Those are not the same
So you think your phone has zero tech that originally came from govt funded R&D such as the military?