Apple extracts far more profit from an iPhone than they ever did with an iPod, leaving them vulnerable for an attack from the bottom of the market (Samsung chur

Apple extracts far more profit from an iPhone than they ever did with an iPod, leaving them vulnerable for an attack from the bottom of the market (Samsung churned out low-end models before they took on Apple straight on with Galaxy S). And there are another group of players in the phone market, the operators, the more you push them around the more interest they have in establishing alternatives to your products.