Just how huge is Apple? When we’re told the tech giant earned $37.4 billion in the most recent quarter, the numbers can feel a little meaningless. So here’s some perspective: If Apple spun off the iPhone into its own company for some reason, its quarterly earnings would be $19.75 billion—more than what McDonald’s and Coca-Cola earned the same quarter combined. If we take the iPad’s stand-alone quarterly earnings, we’d find that the $5.9 billion the tablet earned would be more than the combined take of well-known Internet properties Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Groupon and Tesla. (Slate)

Paul Asay has written for The Washington Post, Christianity Today, Beliefnet.com and The (Colorado Springs) Gazette. He writes about culture for PluggedIn and wrote the Batman book God on the Streets of Gotham (Tyndale). He recently collaborated with Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, on his book The Good Dad. He lives in Colorado Springs with wife, Wendy, and his two children. Follow him on Twitter.