And no one is asking them to give up the 40% profit on most of their hardware. You just throw out a nonsensical argument they will be. A low end poor person iPhone with cheaper exterior parts and screens will still have a HUGE profit margin in the quantities they could move them in. One of the reasons Android margins are so low is so many models (a half dozen within 18 months even from just 1 vendor) with so many different parts economy of scale in mfring does not happen. Apple could get real mfr'ing breaks with 1 low end model with 1 screen size, etc. the Android model'itis folks cannot enjoy.
But 0% of the profit when Android sells 3-4 phones for every 1 iPhone sold, the math bears out that iPhones get so outnumbered that suddenly Play stores become hugely profitable at the expense of AppStore in long term. Ignoring thes numbers last decade is how Windows ended up with worse low profit hardware but more software, and software that started as Mac only suddenly Windows had later versions of the software than Mac much earlier (PageMaker, Photoshop, etc.) and crept up. And lo and behold Windows apps started outnumbering the Mac apps.
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Kris Murray <krismurray@gmail.com> wrote:
It's been working really well for apple. If 40% of every hardware sale is profit you don't have to sell as many as the guy who only has a 4% profit margin by a factor of ten to remain competitive. Add in all the insane profits on the app and media sale and apples viability and profitability are here for the foreseeable future. IMO. I may still be holding apple stocks at 10x what I bought them for but that in no way means im an expert. I'm very convinced however that what I say has the ring of reality to it. ;)
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On Jun 25, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Charles Carroll <911@learnasp.com> wrote:
> The most money / profit strategy / justification did not work for many historically
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