You are dead wrong. Why do you think capitalist countries have antitrust legislation? Companies can make more money as monopolies. It's a place where most companies aspire to grow to.
More than possibly those numbers could be from the increased numbers of people who've had to take up part-time work who would've been otherwise unemployed.
I don't think Apple is a great analog for most startups, who don't have the time or cash to test and iterate in secret for months. And many of their products that needed real world validation (Ping, Siri) have not turned out great.