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The Profit Margin on the iPod nano

Posted by Zonk on from the white-gold dept.

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.'"

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  1. DIGG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Once again, digg.com had this yesterday...

    1. Re:DIGG! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Does it make any difference if /. and digg both had this yesterday ?

  2. Re:Profit Margins by ccarson · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    test

  3. Re:Profit Margins by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    holy crap!! it's the fabled test post!!

  4. Re:Profit Margins by hostyle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mom? Is that you?

    I'm leaving now and will be home soon. Sorry about all that stuff I posted earlier.

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  5. Profit = Evil??? by MrLogic17 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why is it assumed that profit is a bad thing?

    If Apple wasn't making money off the iPod, *that* would be a bad thing. For many thousands of employees!

    All these articles lately make me think the editors have gone commie/socialist on us....

    -MrLogic

  6. Don't by a NANO until they fix the easy scratching by furry_wookie · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Apparently the first people who have bought nano's are pissed off because they scratch VERY EASILY.

    There is an article in the register on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/23/ipod_nano_ scratching/

    From this 200 comment thread on Apple's own discussion forums: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@823.1UXD aaTXUpD.0@.68b94d61

    I own a 2nd Gen iPod and just purchased a white nano. I have to agree the nano is very very very easy to scratch. I have been handling mine very carefully and it has scratches across the screen. Very disappointing. The nano is very cool and part of that is the look. Apple put a lot of effort into the design and appearance. It is disappointing that it scratches so easily. I can't believe I would say this but if I did not have my nano personalized I would of returned it.

    I got my iPod Nano last Saturday. To avoid scratches, I put it back into the plastic wrap, it came in, when I used it. But today I took it out for recharging and it was full of scratches!!!! Probably from dust (!) that crept underneath... Can you believe that ??? Really poor quality !!!

    Personally, I was looking forward to getting one soon, but now I would hold off on buying one for now until this is addressed by Apple.

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