Notice I used the word "consumer". Consumer != businesses. Consumers don't pay google to advertise and what google "sells" you are the ads... or more accurately you are paying google with your privacy, allowing them to brainwash you with consistent ad-placement and track you through the internet for analytics to see how they can optimize ads in your face so that you are more likely to accidentally or purposefully follow links.
I'm not sure how you think an apple iPhone, computer or any electronic device is the same thing as an ad? My point was that Apple develops phones (what we are talking about in this forum) and tries to get people to love and buy them because that's their primary business. UNLIKE Google (as an example) that focuses on selling ads to businesses and tries to make phones/software for their primary business (ad-networks). Not sure why you changed the scope of what I said to engulf every possible product or service in the world?
This is not a very complex idea. The previous poster did the same thing, took a simple idea and blew it out to include all things under the sun. Why?
No, you said something:
"I still love Apple and always will because they make their $$$ of selling products that people like and choose to buy."
you were then called out and then you moved the goalposts by trying to say that you said something else.
Companies turn a profit by creating and selling a product or a service to its consumers.
advertising space and the data that Google collects are its products and the advertisers are its consumers.
A consumer is the end user of a product or service, so yes advertisers,businesses and even giant corporations can be consumers.
It's not a complex concept, however it is one that you seem to fail to grasp.