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Old 09-16-2011, 05:15 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
That was a very silly article. Suppose they got a 10% market share selling at $99, and losing (say) $150 on each tablet. Apple's selling a million a week at present, so they'd need to be selling at least 100,000 per week to take a 10% share. That's a weekly loss of $15 million, or near $800 million per year.

I suppose if that doubled the value of the PC division from $8 billion to $16 billion, it'd be well worth it.

But I can't quite see big investors being fooled like that.
The more people using WebOS 3.0, the more apps bought in the app store. This type of business model can work when you have other ways to turn a profit besides hardware sales.
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