[aMorePerfectUnion]

“Go back and re-read my post. I stated that both Vista and Windows 8 sold more “COPIES” than any iPhone version. Notice that ‘copies’ is not the same as amount of revenue or profits earned.”

Have you not read that many run a race, but only one wins?

Winning for a business isn’t copies.

Winning for any business is profits.

Apple is a business vacuuming up the vast majority of profits in the smartphone industry.

[adorno]

Winning for a business isn’t copies.

Winning for any business is profits.

You're still having a huge problem understanding what you read or what I wrote.

I made it a point to mention that what I was referring to, is the number of copies 'sold'. Not the amount of profits generated from those copies. Any dope nowadays would rather sell just one copy of an item that generates a million dollars in profits, than selling a million copies to generate the same million dollars or less. It's common sense and good business practice.

You insist on prolonging an argument which isn't anywhere within my comments.

Apple has been raking in the dough with its iPhone, and nobody will argue that it isn't a productive product as far as generating revenue.

Windows is a generator of profits too, but, at a small scale per copy. 1.5 billion copies of Windows will generate a lot of revenue; not from sales of those copies, but from the potential after-market sales of other services and products and software and content, etc.

There may come a time when the iPhone doesn't generate as much in profit per device as in the last 8 years that it's been around. The profit margin per device may eventually come down to resemble the same low margin that the rest of the industry enjoys, and that would spell disaster for Apple and for its investors.

Android devices are low profit items, if they generate any profits at all. But, the Android ecosystem for Google and others is not dependent on the profit per device. It's about selling in volumes in order to make the profits in the back-end, like with advertising. If Apple's devices become less profitable, Apple will be left with a low number of users, though still significant. But, that lower number of users would not be able to generate the same amount of revenue from after-market sales, as the Android ecosystem or the Windows ecosystem.

Expecting that Apple will forever be able to count on the high-margin profits, is foolish and not good business. Apple needs other products and services, and counting on iPhones for about 70 percent of revenue, is, again, not good business proactive. Apple needs to diversify, and I think they're trying, while understanding that the iPhone can't carry them forever.

And, again, I just mentioned number of copies, not the amount of profits. Entiende?