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Let's see. $15 a month = $180 year.
250,000,000 million subscribers x $180 = $45,000,000,000 or $45 billion in gross annual subscription revenue.

Overall cost for content acquisition is estimated by the analyst at 70%? Why is that assumption considered realistic given that Apple has already begun paying to produce its own viedeo content?

Also, hosting a video streaming service (will magazines and newspapers be packaged with this) isn't the same business as maintaining a store for apps, so why apply the
latter's business model to the analysis?

 Apple could be developing a package quite unique to the streaming market with costs and revenues difficult to predict.

The article is an attention-getting joke. Apple is running a contest clearly aimed at the average IPhone user, not soliciting submissions from professional photographers. Don't like the lack of prize money or Apple hardware or whatever for the winners (on top of the exposure), don't enter. Simple. Look around. Check out the photo magazines and their websites. Countless photo contests without cash remuneration or prizes with cash value to winners. Professional photographers trying to make a living aren't entering these contests.

What a waste of time reading this story. Why does Appleinsider recycle this kind of crap. Digitimes? Based on its sources? I don't need sources to predict that if a given
Apple Iphone doesn't sell well that orders for its parts will soon be reduced.

What I'd like to know is by how much (by percentage/bar graph?) Apple is throttling performance in order to preserve battery life in iPhones deemed to need this. By 5%, 10%, 40%, more?

It would be nice to have some sort of app or metering displayed (preferably from Apple) on the device to let you know when your battery is going to reach the point where throttling will kick in (and what the performance hit will be) and also when the battery has degraded to the point where replacement is the only reasonable solution.

Sure, why don't they call it the "We smart" bar or the "Just Like Apple" bar or the "Copycat Lounge." Can't wait until Apple can cut Samsung out entirely as a supplier.