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Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct... by ac29 on Friday July 31, 2020 @11:31PM (#24017192)
I cant find any evidence in their financial reports of Apple breaking down sales and cost of sales for the App store in early years. I would be very, very surprised though if it was not profitable almost immediately (unless you creatively move around numbers and claim 100% of the iPhone's R&D was a cost of sale for the app store).
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Re:The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct... by pwinnski on Monday August 03, 2020 @10:24AM (#24038118)
You are correct, I am taking their early claims at face value, but they never produced supporting numbers. I would be shocked if their claims weren't true, however.

Because of the lack of numbers, I'm not sure how long it was before running at break-even ceased to be a thing, though.

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