No I said apple does a lot more to faciliate software getting into people's hands. They own - build, scale, market - the chain from dev to user.
Valve only fills in a part of the chain.
Do less?
Microsoft and Sony spend billions annually building their markets for developers and serving developers. Again, they own - operate, scale - the entire chain from dev to end consumer. I could iterate the things they do that Valve does not - from QA, through marketing, hardware production and distribution, retail chains and more besides - but to simplify it by looking at operating activity through the lens of expense, if you're telling me that they're spending billions doing nothing (>$25bn combined last year), or doing less than Valve does, well, you'll have a hard time convincing me of that.