Re: Why DRM Can Never Succeed — ps Enable

[Jared Earle]

On 2/17/07, Jeffrey Hergan <jahergan at mac.com> wrote:
> "Apple makes its money on ipod sales, not on song sales."
>
> I have a very hard time believing that is anywhere near true.
> Certainly there is decent profit from song sales, especially
> considering the vast quantity of songs being sold.

Apple gets nearly nothing on the song sales. Bandwidth costs are high
and the labels get nearly all of it. I don't believe it loses money
any more, as has been suggested, but it's not a huge profit centre.

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