Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak

Re:Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak by tlrobinson on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @04:54PM (#215296)

I don't think that's really true. Apple makes more money on hardware than anything else. The iTunes Store helps sell more iPods, not as much the other way around.

I think Apple's decision to require all iPhone apps be sold through the iTunes Store is partially a matter of control. If an app is malicious or misbehaves, they can easily pull it.

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Re:Flash on iPhone would be a huge revenue leak by koblas on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @05:32PM (#215344)

It might be true, tried to find the gross revenue per unit for an iPod (unable to). However, during my investigation I did find this interesting blog post.

  http://daringfireball.net/2008/01/aapl_q1_2008

The author makes a few interesting notes about Apples Q1: * Mac sales and iPhone sales were equal * The gross revenue per iPod was $181

Also, apple made $808M on iTunes.

There is one interesting bit of foretelling in the post (written 5 months ago)

     The market for third-party software for the iPhone and iPod Touch is already big, and I expect that by this time two years from now, there will be more iPhones/iPod Touches in use than Macs. (Imagine the unit sale numbers for a $199 iPhone two years from now.)

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