On 3 Jul, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Wire James wrote:
subtract the following: R&D costs; Developers Salaries and perks;
Marketers salaries, facilitation and the usual PR; Management
payments; retreat expenses (we are talking of retreats in Hawaii or
Bahamas for weeks without end just conceptualising this Iphone
thing); Costs of Beta and Alpha tests; Cost of the idea (the idea
owner); etc etc etc. You will realise that the earliest they can
talk of making some dough is a year from now.
Wire
Wire, what I do not understand from your dialogue is how unlocking
the phone hurts Apple's bottom line. That's totally different from
forming an el-cheapo Japanese/American/... clone. All this will do is
sell more units!
Of course if Apple was planning to make a lot of cash off selling
apps for the iPhone then maybe. But still, I'd bet their biggest
margin is made off selling the hardware itself.
It may hurt ATT's bottom line - but that's what the $125 (or so)
contract cancellation fee is supposed to cover.
--
patrick
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