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Apple sold 10-15 million of the minis each year, with a marketing budget of approximately zero.

The problem is that everyone believed Tim Cook when he claimed that this is a failure.



How much did it cost Apple to make those minis? Do we know?


I surely don’t. But if it wasn’t profitable, then Apple sucks at supply chain management (which is something I don’t believe).


It even can be profitable but not worth the opportunity cost: spending the resources on other things could be more profitable.




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