In article <468844f4$0$10194$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
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.
>

According to teh National Association of Record Industry
Professionals' (NARIP) figures, Apple keeps 34 cents of the 99 cents.
Since all they really have as overhead is servers and cheap storage
capacity, I would think they get to keep most of that.