NO I don't own an I phone, nor do I want one. I touch when I can send email/Voip but no I phone, but I can hear all the complainers now.

Apple is basically delivering a handheld computer with a phone included and they are getting a nice amount of revenue for intensive work (plus a lot of money invested) over a 2 year period.

Let them make their money - it will only go into more exciting products over the next 2 years.

I don't have one yet, but will probably spring for one when there is more memory available at a decent price - like 16 or 32 gigs for $399.

and pretty soon we are talking about real money."

Let's do the numbers:
5 M iPhones = $1 G USD to Apple per year.
10 M = $2G

Jesus! This revenue is almost all 100% profit !

Basically if anyone has ever paid for apple's service plan it is an extended service contract. Considering AT&T is not able to service such a sophisticated system I am wondering why Apple does not get more revenue from AT&T. Apple does everything for AT&T. AT&T just has to maintain it's own system and these new customers are freeand completely serviced by Apple. Considering most phones will need some service in a two to three year period software upgrades and backup service is built into the Apple model. AT&T should pay and actually they should pay a percentage of usage to Apple because Iphone is a dataplan and a media delivery system. So it is easy fro iphone users to go over their minutes and bandwidth. Customer Service is going to challenge Apple and this extra cost will lost. basically it is a deal for AT&T

Guess they both think Apple is making better than a 20% profit on each iPhone.

Apple deserves the money and as others have said will use it to do even better things.

ALL your analysts, revenue agreements, iPhones, and royalties are belong to US :p

we have them, and you DONT !

This link below shows the number of iphones sold during the quarter and also gives the revenue generated from them.

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q407data_sum.pdf

So 1.119 million iphones sold. However the revenue from them is only 118 million. That tells me that per phone apple made a revenue of about $100.

How can that be? Average price of iphone is $400 and also there is revenue from att per month. Can some one explain me the math!

For other products like ipods this math works out to be reasonable.

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This link below shows the number of iphones sold during the quarter and also gives the revenue generated from them.

http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q407data_sum.pdf

So 1.119 million iphones sold. However the revenue from them is only 118 million. That tells me that per phone apple made a revenue of about $100.

How can that be? Average price of iphone is $400 and also there is revenue from att per month. Can some one explain me the math!

For other products like ipods this math works out to be reasonable.