underrated comment :) bold of you to assume they don't have them already only 6 countries have a higher GDP than apple lol

if anyone from Apple is in these threads please sign me up for the beta although i think the first round pretty much knocked me & my family out

You are comparing market cap to GDP. You should compare revenue to GDP. Still not a perfect comparison, but much much better. Apple's revenue: 380B. Iran sits at position 40 with 380B GDP in 2022.

ahhh makes sense thank you for catching that Iran keeps popping up all over HN past few days haha

still kind of crazy to think Iran and it's entire oil reserves that power idk how many households produce the same amount of revenue as 175k people

That oil is sold unprocessed and won't be powering anything unless it goes through a fairly expensive processing and logistics chain. Iran is also extremely inefficient and unproductive - it's a state after all.

Similarly, African raw materials form the core of many computers and yet Africa is still poor - because the raw material itself isn't that useful.