Hey, boss, I realize 90% of our unit prices are already pure profit, but I reckon we can get that to 95% by blaming an increase in chip prices. Actually, you know what, our users are already locked in an fucked if they don't buy our shit, so let's go for it.
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Is Apple's profit margins on hardware 90%? I thought it was still high but around 40%.
They're not 90%, yet... But just raise the prices and pass the blame has been in fashion pretty hard for the last 6 years.
They won't ever get to 90%, they have slowly moved up from 35-40% over 20 years.
Did you know the age verificatiion that apple did within the UK wasn't mandatory for them? They chose to go out of their way to kiss ass.
the online safety act would be undone within 1 day if apple sent a message to every UK-dwelling apple device warning them that their apple devices won't work within a week if they don't petition their government to undo that bullshit totalitarian surveillance and censorship bullshit
by the way...apple can just decide to make your apple products not work anymore. They can also remove any app from your apple products they don't want you to have. 1 update is all it takes.
The fact that apple don't feel they can do this or a good thing. We don't want companies who think they are more powerful than governments. It would be preferential if governments were doing things in our interest all the time, but it's a start.