On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Karsten Silz <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Dec 9, 12:41 pm, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I wonder if in a few years time, we > > will say yes Apple screwed up they repeated the mistakes of the MAC on > iOS. > > Apple is in the business of making money. By licensing out iOS to > third parties, Apple would get just iOS license revenue and see > inferior products because you generally build better products if you > build the entire thing yourself. Let's say the about 25 million iOS > devices Apple sold sold last quarter were built by somebody else, but > Apple got 30 dollars license fee a pop (that's pretty expensive - > Window Phone 7 is rumored to be around $25 a phone). Makes $750 > million revenue and about $640 million profit (at 85% gross margin, > which is Microsoft / IBM territory). Now last quarter, Apple's profit > was around $4.3 billion. iOS accounts for about 70% of Apple's > revenue, so lets be generous and say iOS only got 60% of the profits - > that's $2.6 billion. Hmm.... And that doesn't even account for supply > chain efficiencies like Flash storage that is used across Macs and iOS > (Apple is estimated to buy about 40% of the worldwide Flash storage) > and - to a lesser degrees - shared code between iOS and OS X. > > But their closed model did not win out, Wintel became the defacto standard that it is today, you might not like Microsoft, but they did the PC war and they made a stack of money. Looking back it is quite clear that Microsoft made the right decision, and IBM and Apple did not. Now the fact that Microsoft has sort of gotten lost with the internet is another topic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
