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  • Apple's to Orange Color Salmon?

    [Read the article: Microsoft on Mac gains: Apple's not even close]
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    Vista & XP, the choice of oil change computers, wedding kiosks and telemarketers ... MS makes - what- $50? $65 from each machine for an OEM sale?

    Apple makes anywhere from $100 for each software OSX and $500 to $3000 for each OSX on a machine. Basically, MS has to sell 10 to 20 copies of Vista to make what Apple makes for 1 OSX (top of the line Mac Pro sells for $4k) sale with a machine.

    And MS then takes that profit and throws it away on the XBox ($23 billion invested, $6 BILLION revenue).

    So, while MS dances with glee everytime a customer service rep gets a new PC - Apple makes 10-20 times as much selling 1 machine to a startup's founder.

    Apple's to fake salmon.

    Friday, July 27, 2007 08:48 PM

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