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The title should have been:

iPhone/iPad apps are for Apple making money and the web is for innovating

Other people might make money too, but Apple will make money.

Enough with the anti-fanboi fanboism.

Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer: "Regarding the App Store and iTunes stores, we are running those a bit over break even, and that hasn't changed."

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/26/app_store_wild...

'Break even' doesn't mean they aren't making money, right? All we can conclude is that they have structured their accounting to say that the amount they're spending on the stores (whatever that means) is almost as much as the stores bring in.

A vibrant ecosystem is worth 1000x high profits.

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