iPhone unit sales keeping pace with the DS in USA

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I don't see any real comparison between the devices.

One is a dedicated game player, designed to get people to purchase games at retail which price at $20-$30US each. Nintendo gets $5-$10 revenue from *every* DS game sold, not too sure about profit though.

The other is a phone, which has a digital, online store which sells free/non-free applications. 95% of the (phone) revenue will come from calls & data charges - the other 5% from actual purchasing applications (which includes games).

The average price of these games is around the $2-3US mark, with Apple making 50c-$1 on an average sale.

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Apple do not sell their own software - they make money off hardware, licensing & taking a cut from all software.

Nintendo are the primary designer/seller of software on the DS. They make the majority of their profit from sales of their own software - and a smaller amount from licensing/manufacturing, and also from hardware itself.

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Last year, Nokia sold something like 100m phones worldwide.