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Wait, so Apple gets excluded

> We would have loved to have seen this innovative company included in the financial analysis, but Apple still makes far more than 50% of its revenues off hardware and devices.

But then Dell is included...

> Dell is known for being the classic direct sales company – without a bricks-based retail presence

Apple's brick and mortar stores are doing well, but not _that_ well, right?

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'the typical 6,000-square-foot Apple store rang up sales of about $4,700 per square foot in 2008, which was "undoubtedly the highest among retail chains in the country"'

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/apple-stores-now-just-...

Impressive.

Frankly, I'm still not sure that Dell or Apple would be a good choice to include here anyway; of course a place that sells $1000 - $2000 objects is going to have incredibly high revenues, and as you can see on the graph, it kind of skews it a bit...

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