Keep in mind that many app developers put a huge amount of time and effort into developing their apps and publishing them, and then only see a small trickle of income.
And many others have sense enough to go work for a company that has benefits and resources and make an easy $100K+ a year....
There are these things called links....
$18 billion profit, but they can't afford to make their phones in a country with decent labour laws. Nope, can't do it. The numbers just don't add up I tell you. Apple are the apotheosis of psychopathic corporate greed, at the expense of any human decency.
So which country are most of your electronic products made in? What about your clothes? your shoes?
So in that case, everyone who buys any product belongs to a cult? Or is it just anyone who buys something that is sold at a high margin?
I am no native English speaker, but you got the point. Something so successful in business can't be optimal for consumer. It means basically one thing, that if there is analogue for this product, and there is, they are overcharging.
Again, in a free market where there are literally hundreds of alternatives, the consumer -- all 75 million of them -- chose what they felt would be an "optimal" use of their money.
The per capita income in the US is around $50,000. If someone chose to spend about 1.2% of that income on an iPhone -- something they use multiple times per day, that's capitalism working "optimally". Their is market for a product and a producer willing to create it for a price they both feel is fair.
So in other words there is no basis in reality that Apple's customers are a "cult"....
"Words Mean Things". By whose definition is "niche" - half of the relevant population?
So does anyone who buys a product from a company that sells product at a high margin have an "excessive admiration" for that product? What do you think the marginal cost of a copy of Windows is? Does that mean every Windows user belongs to a cult?
That still doesn't answe the questiom, does half of the US constitute a "cult"?
So half of all smart phone buyers in the US constitute a "small niche"?
Guess, how they are most profitable? Obviously nothing to do with overcharging you, NOHOHO, NOT AT ALL.
If they were "overcharging", they wouldn't be selling as many. Amazing how the free market works isn't it?
That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world.
So instead of 500USD for the Ipad2, you could be paying 400USD and they would still make money.
And some people don't think Apple is overpriced.
I am sure some people think software developers are overpriced, but I am not going to walk into my managers office and tell him to give me a pay cut.
So now a "cult" is half of US smart phone buyers?
What does that make Linux users then?
Only if the DoJ continues to look the other way in the face of continuing flagrant Sherman act violations in the form of secret exclusionary agreements with OEMS
You mean the "exclusionary" agreements that don't allow companies like Dell and HP to sell hardware running Android and ChromeOS? Have you been to either of their websites lately?
BASIC is the Computer Science equivalent of `Scientific Creationism'.
