1. Commodities don't make record profits. There is nothing "dickish" about that… That's how companies work.
3. I've hear equally terribly, if not more terrible percentages from Amazon on physical books. In fact, I've heard worse. Amazon has been known to require publishes to set lower prices… At least Apple lets you set your own price!
4. Apple seems to have done more to improve working conditions than any other company that uses Foxconn.
5. False. While Apple might not directly donate (although, I'm not entirely certain they don't), they have implemented a policy in which they agree to match the donation of any employee (up to a certain amount).
6. That's not patent trolling. Patent trolling is when you have a patent which you don't use yourself, yet sue people who do… and thus make most of your revenue on patent lawsuits.
You cannot compare percentages between physical and electronic books. Amazon's costs for a physical book are substantially higher than anybody's costs for an electronic book. You have to compare apples to apples here. Doing so, you won't find Amazon to be any better than Apple, but neither will you find them to be any worse. Their percentages for physical books are substantially worse because their costs are substantially higher. That's the cost that comes from selling paper: you're obligated to give a lot of money to middlemen because the material is inherently expensive to create and sell.
3. I've hear equally terribly, if not more terrible percentages from Amazon on physical books. In fact, I've heard worse. Amazon has been known to require publishes to set lower prices… At least Apple lets you set your own price!
4. Apple seems to have done more to improve working conditions than any other company that uses Foxconn.
5. False. While Apple might not directly donate (although, I'm not entirely certain they don't), they have implemented a policy in which they agree to match the donation of any employee (up to a certain amount).
6. That's not patent trolling. Patent trolling is when you have a patent which you don't use yourself, yet sue people who do… and thus make most of your revenue on patent lawsuits.