Comment Re:18B on 75B (Score 1) 534
Er... huh? "Apple's Gross Margin is 39.9% - Samsung's is 39.87." Both sell a lot of hardware, and in Samsung's case a lot of other random stuff.
So what was your "I'm sure that Apples margins on software products is comparable" about?
As to the others, I refer you to: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?... http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?...
Those margins are not anything close to that stated in the original post. Microsoft is primarily a software comapny and has margins in line for that industry.
You are confusing the margins on the devices that Blackberry sells with the fact that they sell far to little to make a profit. Apple has those high margins because they sell so many. As for Microsoft, they sure as hell sell hardware, but either at low or negative margins.
As to Samsung, their margins are actually at the upper end of recent years.
As to Apple and software sales, what is the margin on Final Cut Pro (and think what it was when it cost more than $299) Logic Pro X @ 199? But in the end, those do not matter as without iPhone Apple is at best a third or fourth place computer maker with marketshare in the 5 to 10% range (historically).
Yeah, they've only outgrown the rest of the PC market for almost all quarters during the last couple of years. Total failure.