Det er rigtigt, at Apple tjener rigtig mange penge på iPhones. Faktisk peger nogle eksperter på, at indtjeningen på iPhones er så stor, at Apple har været i stand til at finansiere prisfald på deres MacBook Pro-serie, uden at tabe penge på bundlinjen.

Jeg ved ikke hvad danske teleselskaber tjener på en iPhone. Men jeg ved hvorfor AT&T elsker deres eksklusivaftale med Apple i USA:
To better illustrate the growing Apple addiction at AT&T, let’s go back to AT&T’s fourth-quarter 2008 results. During that three-month period nearly 1.9 million 3G iPhones were activated, and 40 percent of them, or about 760,000, were new to AT&T. In other words, 36 percent of AT&T’s new customers signed up because of the iPhone.
From a revenue perspective, during the first quarter of 2009, the average iPhone user gave AT&T about $94.74 a month vs. an average postpaid AT&T customer, who spends about $59.21 a month with the company. (Actually if you took all iPhone monthly subscriptions out of the equation, that number would be even lower.) At $94.74 each, the 640,000 net new subscribers bring in about $60 million a month in additional revenues for AT&T. Given how drastically AT&T’s landline and business voice sales are tanking, it makes sense why AT&T is so desperately stuck on the iPhone.
Kilde: Gigaom