[jdmichal]

Originally Posted by Janak Parekh

http://daringfireball.net/linked/200...suppli-shuffle has an interesting response of this. In particular, John Gruber points out that:

John Gruber apparently got owned with my arguments already. See the updates on his post for details. He does have a valid argument against the media though, which is his only valid argument. But iSuppli itself never claims to do anything more than cost out the components. As igreen mentioned, there are many, many more costs that go into taking a product from components into the market, all of which are factored into the operating margins.