The benefits of getting product development right! Although not many articles that comment on Apple’s success seem to be saying “well done Apple, you deserve to make heaps from your ideas”!! As you can see from the following examples.

Huge iPhone Fees Juice Apple By Scott Moritz

People close to the companies tell TheStreet.com that AT&T is paying Apple a bounty of between $150 and $200 per phone — plus $9 a month per phone over the life of the typical two-year customer contract.

AT&T didn’t comment, and Apple said it would have no comment.

But the figures show Apple is getting an unprecedented windfall on the sale of each new iPhone.

iPhone strengthens AT&T signal
Times Online – AT&T, the US mobile operator, posted a 61 per cent increase in second-quarter profits and revealed that the lure of Apple’s iPhone won it nearly 60,000 new subscribers within 48 hours of the device going on sale. The figures are likely to be weighed

iPhone Calls to Some Business Users
Wall Street Journal – With the iPhone’s hefty price tag, it is likely that big-spending business users were well-represented among the hordes who turned out to buy Apple Inc.’s cellular phone during its first weeks on sale. Even if the bona fides of the iPhone as a

Karstadt stores to sell iPhone in Germany
Boston Globe – FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Around 700,000 of the gadgets — which combine a phone with an iPod music player, video player and Web browser in a sleek touch-screen design — are estimated to have been sold in their first weekend in shops in the United States at the end of June.German department store chain Karstadt will sell Apple’s coveted iPhone, Karstadt said on Monday,