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faragontoday at 6:27 AM2 repliesview on HN

It's "fair": ARM takes 1% of the iPhone CPU, i.e., less than 0.1% of the total phone price, while Apple takes 30% of the apps in the iStore


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thisislife2today at 8:33 AM

Spot on! The 1% is indeed absolutely reasonable when you consider the 30% or so Apple tries to leech of from both developers and its user base.

hollerithtoday at 6:34 AM

--and about 50% of the total price of an iPhone.

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