They don't make money by selling user information to third parties or by selling ads,
Funny, Apple has this thing called iAd where you pay Apple to place targeted ads, and it's currently being sued for selling user info to 3rd parties. Are these activities Apple's primary revenue model? No, but they are part of the revenue stream nevertheless.
Airbus was 33 billion euros in 2011, about $40 billion.
Boeing was $86 billion in 2013. Unless Airbus more than doubled revenues in 2 years, I think Boeing has a comfortable lead on Airbus.
As far as medicine, name the top pharma or medical device companies - all US based.
the size of Texas and kicking ass in aerospace, electronics, medicine.....sounds like more going on per populated square mile than USA.
70+% of all French people speak english (they have to study it), and in tech/engineering sector it's near 100%.
You know why they speak English in the tech/engineering sector? Because in aerospace, electronics, medicine - they're behind the US.
Variables don't; constants aren't.