iTunes vs Device Earnings?
sama: If you believe that they make $200 per iPhone and have sold 35M iPhones, that'd be about 7 billion in earnings.  It's a bit weird because they take the earnings over 2 years per device (or something close to that).  Most estimates on profit per song sold are around 10 cents (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/07/04/23/itunes_store_a...), and they'd sold 6 billion songs by the beginning of this year.  App Store sales are probably not significant here, although they're critical to why they sell so much hardware.  I've read stuff that earnings to Apple are less than 100M.So, say 7B for iPhone (alone, not counting iPods!!) earnings and 700M for iTunes.EDIT: several people have suggested to me that in fact Apple makes closer to 400 than 200 per iPhone when you take into account revenue shares and all subsidies.  strikes me as high.