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Who designs it, who builds it, who makes it are arguably different things.
Consider OS/2 the operating system from IBM... built by Microsoft.
OSX... is it Berkley Software Division or Apple? Is the iPhone Apple or Qualcomm?
Seat, Audi, VW etc. are all mostly made by the same German motor group.
If the car was 100% designed and commissioned by Toyota (not saying it was) but the parts and construction sourced and carried out by Subaru, does that make the car Toyota or Subaru?
It's a tricky one., but with other examples from many other industries (all outsourcing to each other) it would tend towards Toyota.
If I am employed by company X and I write software on contract for company Y, then it is usually, company Y's software.
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