What a load of bunk. There’s nothing special about their hardware, and they only have a high cut of the profits because their stuff is overpriced.
I love it when a naysayer who doesn't use Apple comes up with these kind of "bunk" claims and then makes a totally specious claim such as your "overpriced" BS.
So, if Apple hardware is "overpriced," pray tell, Cementjungke, who is holding a gun to the heads all those Apple buyers forcing them to buy these overpriced products? Or are you one of those Liberals who do not believe in the power of the free market? Do you REALLY believe that Apple was capable of selling over 1.2 BILLION iOS devices because they bamboozled all those buyers into thinking they were better than anything else out there? If you think that is true, you are totally delusional.
No, Cementjungle, a product is worth what a willing buyer and a wiling selling agree it is worth. Apple has established the value and the price of its iPhones by selling them to over 800 million willing buyers. Since YOU have not bought one, you are unqualified to even talk about the price as being "overpriced" because you literally don't have a clue, and you are unwilling to buy at the price these ~800 million have set as a value and price. All they have to do to avoid that is not buy Apple products. Easy.
No other company on the face of the earth has been able to sell their single products to that extent. Google's Android OS has to have almost 500 companies to help it reach that kind of number. . . and it still isn't making much of a profit for Google or even Google's partners. In fact, Google makes MORE off of Apple's iOS devices than than it does from Android. Apple is competing against ALL of those 500 and takes 94% of the profit. . . yet most of them, competing on price are in a race to the bottom, take home zero or less. Are you so dense you can't see the error in doing that?
“they only have a high cut of the profits because their stuff is overpriced.”
And Apple uses cheap Chinese labor instead of Americans all the while bragging about their profits.
Trump is right: TAX them! Bring the jobs back to America!