"would assume it higher than Apple’s 40% gross margin – so yeah – it is a considerable chunk of change."
It'a actually less. 10% for music, 30% for apps.

The truth? Probably somewhere in the middle

Exactly the reasoning Greenpeace is counting on you to use. Truth is X, Greenpeace says it is 10000X. Most people assume it's safe to assume the truth is 5000X.

I find it hard to believe that there should be a part of the brain evolved to process religion. Just how would nature select for that? I think it more reasonable to believe that religion hijacks that part of the brain, but that it evolved for some other—more mundane—purpose. Question: What, other than Apple products and religion, stimulates that part of the brain? The answer might give us a clue as to what its evolutionary purpose really is, and why it is stimulated by religion and Apple Products.

Why wouldn't you mention the iPhone huge catalogue of apps? What is your assessment of the general quality of apps on both platforms?

the money invested in advertisement was really something in a completely different league than what the rest of the mp3 player manufacturers could do.

Which begs the question: Why has the Zune not overtaken the iPod yet?

That's starting to slip as iPhone and iPod prices come down

It's not Apples MO to drop prices. Rather, they introduce new models and keep the prices level.

Apple's reaction so far has been to raise iTunes prices.

The changed prices in the iTMS has been a reaction to nothing other than the fact that this was a demand posed by the record companies in exchange for them allowing Apple to provide DRM-free versions of their entire catalogues.