1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it

1) Phones were a low margin market. Laptops are the lowest of margins. Desktops too. Apple doesn't care about what the current margin of a market is because it slaps a premium on it to reach the margin its looking for. 2) Apple does not create apps for other platforms as a source of profit. They have never done that. To guess that they would do that now is a gigantic leap in logic.