ssj12 said:
NJ5 said:
ssj12 said:
Grimes said:
Most people could care less about codecs. Most people don't even know what a codec is.
The music market is so yesterday anyways. The real bread winner for Apple is the iPhone. A single iPhone can probably make 10x the profit of an iPod. That's where Apple is crushing Sony. While Sony does produce a lot of phones, those phones make no money. Apple is making billions in profit from its phones while Sony is losing money. |
I know the general consumer doesn't know what codexs is, but that does not matter. What matters is that an MP3 player is made to support as many different formats as it can so a customer can jsut throw an mp3, ogg, and aac formated music file onto their MP3 player and they all work 100% without needing to convert them or use anything extra software to add the songs to the player
And you are right, the iPhone is Apple's claim to the mountains of money at the moment. That does not mean Sony does not make money on each cell phone sold, even the ones at Walmart that are free if you have good credit. The reason is that Sony gets paid by Verizon, AT&T, or whoever for the phone purchase from the money received in the contractual payments received by the phone owner. Also with the advent of Google's entry to the phone market Apple has a ton of competition since every manufacturer is virtually dropping Microsoft's mobile OS for the Android which features functionality that far outreachs Apple's and has an app store full of great goodies. The iPhone is only as good as the software, unfortunately Apple's software is outdated by Google's linux OS Android.
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Sony Ericsson has been bleeding money for quite a while, so... no, they don't make money from phones these days, on the contrary.
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there is a difference between making profit and making revenue. I just posting out that even on the phones that get sold for FREE bring in revenue.
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Fair enough, but the post you were replying to was talking about profits, not revenue.
