The Profit Margin on the iPod nano

Ant writes "BusinessWeek Online reports that researcher iSuppli took a look inside the iPod Nano to find out how much Apple is making off it, and who supplies its parts. From the article: 'Apple has sold some 16 million iPods in the first nine months of fiscal 2005, and 21 million since its inception. Thus far in fiscal 2005, the iPod has brought in $2.6 billion in revenue, accounting for about 25% of Apple's total.'"

Comments

Does the margin really matter?

[Spansule]

Why is this news? I'm seeing it all over the web. Apple can charge whatever they want. If you don't like it, buy something else.

Re:Because you're on slashdot

[rAiNsT0rm]

So true. Unfortunately /. is filled to the brim with hypocritical folks. They back free speach, open source, and the rest, but in reality support the EXACT OPPOSITE. They hate MS, but an Xbox or 360 is hot shit... and then they try to rationalize it by saying MS is "losing money" on the sale not factoring anything else into the equation blindly. They love free speach, but god forbid if you hold a contrary opinion on a matter... they can't mod you a troll/flamebait/overrated fast enough. They Love open source but then support Apple, MS, Dell, Sony, etc. The PS3 should be on every single persons boycott list based on their so called "ideals." And you have the Revolution which aims to offer OPENNESS to small indie developers or even single people... but it is of course a piece of crap and for kids, blah, blah... and it has not 10% of the DRM/Brand Lock-in/Proprietary-ness of the other two. Oh, and the Korean made GPX32 handheld which was a true hackers dream??? Yeah, given short shrift in favor of the PSP.

I don't mean to politicise things, but it is common hippie/liberal tactics. Say, and not just say - scream! for what you "believe" in and then do exactly the opposite because it is too difficult to stick to your guns when things get too tough or it is too much of an inconveinience.

I have no qualms about stating I refuse to use Linux on a desktop PC, I've been using Linux since '95. Have installed so many distro's and packages "trying" to make it feasible, but in the end you are just fooling yourself. Now in a server environment, I'm all for Linux. Webserver, DB server, Load Balancing, Firewall, etc. it is the bee's knees. I do everything in my power to not feed predatory companies that I don't believe in. Not perfectly, but to the best of my abilities. I also don't shout from the mountaintops about things I don't follow myself.