Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AmericaOnLine.com> wrote:
> At 01 Jul 2007 19:18:50 -0500 balsofsteele@gmail.com wrote:
>> They make/made a LOT more money selling media than they did the
>> devices, though.
>
> Actually quite the opposite- by selling the downloads at 99-cents with
> virtually no margin, iTunes is essentially a break-even operation
> designed to support the sales of VERY profitable hardware.
>
> As you correctly point out, other manufacturers create superior spec'd
> hardware at lower retail prices, yet iTunes helps insure that people
> upgrade their old iPod with newer iPods rather than switch brands and
> devalue their investment in iTunes downloads.

True, they should have apps that move the itunes downloads to those devices.
Technically very easy to do, you can do that manually if you know what you are doing.