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The genius is Apple's SHARE of the money from $1 or $5 purchases for content they did not create.

Again you toss out "factoids" without attribution or evidence. What in hell are you talking about? Apple acts as a retailer, delivering goods to their customers and is entitled to a markup and profit for that. Does your cable company not charge for delivering channels and content to you they do not create? How about Amazon? HBO? Cinemax? Of course they do. So does Apple. Do you not believe in capitalism? Apparently not.

You suffer from MAPS:

Swordmaker's and Kathy's proposed diagnosis for the new ICD-10 addenda:

90210 iOS Munchausen's Apple-Plexy Syndrome (MAPS), The overwhelming compulsion to post negative, judgmental, aggressive, and false commentary on any website thread related to Apple products wherever found, including phobic reaction to projected Apple user euphoria. First and subsequent encounters.

Just pointing out that 30% of sale price is beyond “handling/processing” fees. It has accounted for a substantial share of their revenue.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/22/itunes-by-the-numbers-q3/
Tuesday July 22, 2014 3:48 PM PDT by Juli Clover
iTunes billings grew 25 percent year over year to an all time quarterly high, largely due to the App Store.

At a point their continued success is because of their distribution channel (and commission) on the work of others, not because of something being developed within the company.

Amazon doesn’t write those books either but at least they stock/handle a lot of physical product.

How is it a digital song costs the same as a vinyl 45 of days of yore? Certainly doesn’t have the material and distribution costs.