[PugetSoundSoldier]

So, the guy that tries to deflect reports about Apple’s declining market share by talking about profit margin cannot admit that Apple’s two biggest competitors have higher profit margins.

Thanks for confirming that you are, in fact, a shill.

[antiRepublicrat]

cannot admit that Apple’s two biggest competitors have higher profit margins.

I've shown you what kind of margins Microsoft has when hardware production is involved, and that's with outdated hardware. Quit trying to compare apples and oranges. Compare Apple to Nokia and HTC for phones, to any other OEM for computers, etc. But don't compare different whole companies with completely different structures overall.

Microsoft spent billions developing Windows 7 in previous years. Now Microsoft gets to sit back and reap the license profits, making for very big profit margins. After the R&D it costs Microsoft less than $1 to manufacture and ship a retail copy. It costs Microsoft absolutely nothing to make most of the copies of Windows 7 sold (the OEMs and enterprise customers do the duplication).

Apple not only has to R&D operating systems as well, but also hardware devices (and now even down to the SoC). Then Apple has to pay to have the parts manufactured, assembled and shipped.