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Re: Consumer Reports testing confirms that the Apple "Bumpers" for the iPhone 4 solves its antenna problem

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From: SMS
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:26
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On 15/07/10 1:39 PM, DevilsPGD wrote:
> In message<i1nq6o5i294004malch@news.sonic.net>  malch@malch.com (Malcolm
> Hoar) was claimed to have wrote:
>
>> Might not be so great if folks buy low margin products with those
>> credits. But they sure could do as you suggest. I am totally
>> confident that someone at Apple has been busy crunching the
>> numbers...
>
> Does Apple have any products with low enough margin to stress about?

For low cost products, probably iTunes songs are the lowest margin. For 
higher cost products, their laptops likely have margins that are only 
around 30-35%, but since the price of these items is higher, the lower 
margin is less important when giving out store credits.
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:26:50 -0700
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