[joaquin_win]

Recently Steve announced 2 billion paid to devs. That makes apple's cut close to .9 billion. Meanwhile in a quarter Apple has profits of 7billion.

[tptacek]

Over what time period? Is that a top line of 30% of $2Bn over 10-12 quarters? That is a microscopic amount of money for HP.

[joaquin_win]

As I understood, thats since the beginning. So basically nothing compared to HP or even Apple

[jakewalker]

Apple has also said that they operate close to breakeven on iTunes / the App store. See http://allthingsd.com/20100225/apple-billions-of-songs-billi...

[ugh]

Also, that cut is revenue, not profit.