Apple's total software sales, which include but aren't limited to their cut of the App Store revenue, brought in $696 million this past quarter [1]. For compar

Apple's total software sales, which include but aren't limited to their cut of the App Store revenue, brought in $696 million this past quarter [1]. For comparison, their total hardware revenue was just under $28 billion [Ibid.]. Making software something like 2% of their total revenue. That is, more or less, a "drop in the bucket," as Gruber says [2]. [1]: http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/fy11q3datasum.pdf http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/fy11q3datasum.pdf [2]: Which doesn't of course, make Gruber any less of an insufferable ass, yada yada, so on and so forth.