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by Tyrannosaurs 5087 days ago
> Apple and Google are fighting to make money on the backend from each tablet sold. Content distribution tax will likely propel one or both of them to new heights in revenue.

Not based on what we're seeing from Apple so far. Right now Apple make the vast majority of their money from hardware, relatively little from content. Google may have a different model (they're certainly not making anything if much from the Nexus 7 hardware) but the competition in the content market at the moment means that there's not a huge profit to be made there.