From: Richard Kilpatrick (dmc12_at_btconnect.com)
Date: Thu Aug 12 2004 - 15:51:30 PDT
On 12 Aug 2004, at 23:45, Vaguely Radio wrote:
> "The statement I was referring to was that all Jobs cared about was
> protecting high profits and making cool looking stuff. My point was
> that in today's market Apple selling iBooks to a school in an exclusive
> deal as was reported last week for as low as $300/iBook contradicts the
> idea that all Apple cares about is profit. Selling a $1000 iBook for
> $300 does not leave much of any profit."
Actually, the deal was a 4 year lease, $300/iBook/year including onsite
support, networking hardware and servers, for an order of 8,400 iBooks
throughout the Maine district.
Still a good deal. But not $300/iBook.
Richard
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