>That $575 number is nonsensical; Well, then maybe Slashdot is wrong too: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/0546247/google-earns-2-per-handset-apple-5

>That $575 number is nonsensical; Well, then maybe Slashdot is wrong too: http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/0546247/google-earns-2-per-handset-apple-575 http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/12/04/08/0546247/google-ear... >"While Apple generates more than $575 in profit for every iOS device, and according to estimates in 2007 Apple earned more than $800 on every iPhone sold through ATT, Horace Dediu reports that Android generated less than $550m in revenues for Google between 2008 and the end of 2011, earning only $1.70 per year, per Android device — explaining how Apple is sucking up two thirds of the profit in the mobile phone business.