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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Printer manufactures make more money selling toner/ink than they do selling printers.
Apple is trying to promote an ecosystem, a way of thinking and using devices, not just selling hardware.
If they can get market share and a slice of all music/content and applications sold, that will make them more money in the long term than selling more hardware but losing the application revenue.
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Although you are correct about the printer companies, you are incorrect about Apple. Take a look at their revenue breakdown, revenue from the app store and itunes is very minimal, it is just better then breakeven. Apple is a HARDWARE company. 95% of their revenue comes from hardware, if you think they are losing money on hardware to make money on software/media, you are sorely mistaken.