• qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    …but Apple is a publicly traded company.

    I feel like one of us got whooshed, though I’m not entirely sure who.

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        11 months ago

        Sure. But that’s unrelated; Apple is a publicly traded (“public”) company. IKEA, for example, is a privately funded (“private”) company. Being largely proprietary is separate from the ownership structure…

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          11 months ago

          Please do not lecture me on public vs private companies lmfao. That was the most condescending comment I’ve seen in a while. This is a joke post, and we were making little asides. You can allow a little loose interpretation in service of a joke.