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.'"
that's one big ass driver. that's like saying it would be ok for epson scanners to work only with epson imaging software. no photoshop, no paintshop, no gimp, etc. of course, scanners don't have drm and the riaa to deal with either.