Lazy journalism. They're all tech companies and all tech companies have the same business model, of course.

Why is it lazy when journalists compare Apple and Google, and yet it's rare to go even a few comments before FAANG being dropped into any tech discussion?

However, being that Apple sales probably shot through the roof, and how popular microchip commodities were in general, I'm sure they had almost more recent hire than Google did.

Id have the same question why every layoff gets a headline on HN but I guess it's newsworthy when it's a trend.

Otherwise they are pretty similar sized "Big Tech" companies.

Apple: 164,000 employees

Google: 150,000 employees

Amazon: ~800,000 corporate employees (this one was harder to find but the tech/software team is probably similar to above)

c. 65,000 of the Apple employees are retail employees though. It’s not really ‘apples for apples’ to compare that with Google’s entirely tech and product headcount.

Because people are criticizing the tech layoffs and pointing to Apple as an example of why layoffs are not currently necessary.