Are you saying Windows won because it's open? Linux is way more open than Windows and it certainly hasn't won.
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Miroslav Pokorny <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > -- 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.
