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Originally Posted by punky
I do know the rudiments of the business world, thank you for patronising me all the same.
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It wasn't my intent to patronise. It's just that you seem quick to bash Apple based on assumptions that they "rip people off". But Apple aren't coining it in as much as you think.
In the last quarter they made $260m - definitely a lot of money. But this time last year they only made $46m. No doubt that has to do with iPod sales jumping from 700k units Q2 '04 to 5.5m units this quarter.
To put it into perspective, Dell made $749m in the last quarter. Microsoft made $2.36b.
Apple are no more money-grabbing than any other company out there, and to suggest otherwise is naive at best.