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Apple to ban Hulu from iPad?
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GLWT.
NBC Universal, News Corp., The Walt Disney Company, Providence Equity Partners and the Hulu team share in the ownership stake of the company.
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im tired of hearing apple should buy such and such company. i have heard it for google, adobe, hulu, nintendo and many others.
good luck with that
Yeah I don't necessarily believe these claims that Apple is a hardware company either. They didn't amass $30 billion (or is it more?) in the bank by selling laptops and iPhones. There are just too few of them out there for that. The iTunes store makes them tons and tons of money. Look how not too long (1, 2 years ago?) they were celebrating the 1 billionth iTunes download. Now, in the same span of time, they're prepping for 10 billion. You tell me where that $30B came from?
Ruahrc
Ruahrc
From the recent conference call:
See here.
90% of all computers over $1000 are Macs. Apple has very high profit margins on their hardware, and that's where they make their money.
If they banned Hulu, they would have banned all the other sites like it. Besides, they haven't stopped it on any of their other products...
I bet third party eBook readers are banned from the iPad, since Apple now has it's own store. Any of the office suites are out too since Apple made its own. That's why Apple says that "almost all" of the 140,000 iPhone apps work. If Microsoft did this the Apple fanboys would of course be up in arms that Microsoft is evil.
Lol... So what happens if you try download something that's banned? Does it come up with an error message? Does it say this app is not supported? What happens?
if all of the itunes money was there some would go to who owns the music. then lets say it didnt then what would it be? 9/30 of that.
What claims? Apple derives the vast majority of their earnings from hardware. That's just a fact. In the most recent quarter, Apple had $15.6 billion in sales. The iTunes store earned less than $1.16 billion. As Apple reports iTS numbers with other items, let's say they made $1 billion from the iTS last quarter. They make 30% on apps and pennies on song sales. They have to pay for bandwidth. They are not making much here.
Yep not only that, but the number includes accessories and it is a Revenue number. Considering Apple approves every app in the appstore there is going to be huge expenses paying the employees who approve apps.
But you can't really argue with conspiracy theorists. They don't live in a evidence based world.
They're looking at charging a monthly fee for access to a large section of their content, but the basic format will stay the same. They'll still be streaming shows to you (maybe, probably without commercials for paying customers) but I've not heard anything indicating they are going to a per episode sales format like iTunes.
Wow, I did not realize that Apple is shipping 3 million computers/qtr? How is it then that they have such low market share?
Looks like their biggest moneymaker is the iPhone, although I'm not sure how much money they get (if any?) from contracts vs hardware there.
Ruahrc
While you and I may only pay $199 or $299 for an iPhone from AT&T or which ever provider (worldwide) we sign up with. The provider is subsidizing the cost to Apple. AT&T could very likely be paying $499 or $599 to Apple for every 32gig 3GS iPhone they sell. The providers make up their costs via their calling and data plans.
Apple in the end still gets $499 or $599 per phone resulting in a nice healthy profit. It's a win/win for AT&T as they are raking in the profits off their 2yr cell/data plans. This is why you see the huge revenue numbers for the iPhone. It's not the price per phone the end user pays, but what Apple sells it to the various carriers around the world.