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Recently Steve announced 2 billion paid to devs. That makes apple's cut close to .9 billion. Meanwhile in a quarter Apple has profits of 7billion.
by joaquin_win 15y ago
Recently Steve announced 2 billion paid to devs. That makes apple's cut close to .9 billion. Meanwhile in a quarter Apple has profits of 7billion.
- ugh 15y agoAlso, that cut is revenue, not profit.
- jakewalker 15y agoApple has also said that they operate close to breakeven on iTunes / the App store. See http://allthingsd.com/20100225/apple-billions-of-songs-billions-of-apps-not-much-profit/ http://allthingsd.com/20100225/apple-billions-of-songs-billi...
- tptacek 15y agoOver what time period? Is that a top line of 30% of $2Bn over 10-12 quarters? That is a microscopic amount of money for HP.
- joaquin_win 15y agoAs I understood, thats since the beginning. So basically nothing compared to HP or even Apple