According to Bernstein Research analyst Toni Sacconaghi, Apple's iPhone accounted for about 8 percent of the handset industry revenue, but possibly around 32 percent of the industry operating profits, during the first half of 2009. He attributed the success to the "first mover" advantage and compared the iPhone / App Store tie to the very successful iPod / iTunes tie.
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They sold about $3 billion of iPhones in the quarter, which is a yearly rate of $12 billion. I think the App Store revenue is completely insignificant compared to that. They've had perhaps 1.5 billion downloads, most of which I'm assuming are software updates (I've updated each of the Apps I've downloaded an average of about 4 times). The average price I've paid per App is about a dollar (I've downloaded 133 Apps, which is more than average). So that's about $375 million in revenue, of which Apple keeps about $112 million (30/70 split). $100M out of $12B is less than 1%. Even if I'm off by a factor of two or three it's still insignificant.
Originally posted by ZippyDSM: the I brand fad amounts to sheeple who don't know better stampleing each other for over priced under preforming stuff...
Do you get paid to repeat boring myths or do you do it for free?
Originally posted by ZippyDSM: the I brand fad amounts to sheeple who don't know better stampleing each other for over priced under preforming stuff...
Do you get paid to repeat boring myths or do you do it for free?
Sorry but if it dose not have a removable battery and memory, or at least expandable memory(with removable battery) its CRAP!
*edit*
And I freely share my drool with everyone!!
*lick*
