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Originally Posted by lifevicarious
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.
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You should take a look at Steve Jobs saying that he sees the App store as a billion dollar sector. Apple is estimated to have realized a quarter of a billion dollars profit from it in 2009. Plus, it's not just apps. It's all sorts of media that Apple is trying to sell you while in the walled garden, and take a cut from each sale. This includes books, even though Steve Jobs claimed a year ago that "nobody reads" anymore....