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frahse · 02-14-2012, 11:09 AM

Apple is in the iTunes (music, books, magazines, apps, etc.) market to cement its sales of its hardware. If you start off with an iPhone, and buy some stuff, then that stuff can be used on the next iPhone, on the next iPad, etc.
YES Apple wants to make as much profit on the non-hardware side as it can, but that is not its Golden Goose.

Amazon is into the Kindle hardware to cement its sales of music, software, anything that is on Amazon the gigantic reseller in the online Sky.

02-14-2012, 11:09 AM	#41
frahse occasional author Posts: 2,315 Karma: 2064403292 Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wandering God's glorious hills, valleys and plains. Device: A Franklin BI (before Internet) was the first. I still have it.	Apple is in the iTunes (music, books, magazines, apps, etc.) market to cement its sales of its hardware. If you start off with an iPhone, and buy some stuff, then that stuff can be used on the next iPhone, on the next iPad, etc. YES Apple wants to make as much profit on the non-hardware side as it can, but that is not its Golden Goose. Amazon is into the Kindle hardware to cement its sales of music, software, anything that is on Amazon the gigantic reseller in the online Sky.