I do agree. My comparison to MSFT was made to point out that there are tech companies that sustain margins much higher than Apple's 2011 and there's no endless shouts about a [fictional] "tax" or calls for them to stop being greedy and give their customers a break or their labor force more of their fair share. And it's interesting that people are content with comparing Apple to just PC manufacturers. A more proper comparison, albeit a different industry, would be a Cisco Systems who is OS, hardware, service, services, mostly direct sales, some channel distribution. Around 60% I think.
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That is my point. They aren't comparable.
I do agree. My comparison to MSFT was made to point out that there are tech companies that sustain margins much higher than Apple's 2011 and there's no endless shouts about a [fictional] "tax" or calls for them to stop being greedy and give their customers a break or their labor force more of their fair share. And it's interesting that people are content with comparing Apple to just PC manufacturers. A more proper comparison, albeit a different industry, would be a Cisco Systems who is OS, hardware, service, services, mostly direct sales, some channel distribution. Around 60% I think.