margins

Apple will either see market share decline or need to sacrifice part of their margins to maintain share.

The industry is famous for razor thin margins.

Amazon and the likes operate on notoriously slim margins whilst buying at wholesale prices, and getting shipments in bulk.

First, if you open both standards side by side it is quite clear that typesetting and margins are quite different.

They could have fixed it (through training & skilled/hired employees) if they had good margins.

Also avoid businesses where your margins are wafer-thin and you are competing with undocumented labor.

They didn't, because the margins are high on quasi-illicit substances produced in Chinese labs.

Apple doesn't sell commodity products so it's no surprise that they could be netting 50% margins (see [3] for iPod cost information).

Your gross margins are high and you usually don't need initial investments.

They've been operating on slim margins but they are considered to be one of the few old media companies to be successfully transitioning to digital.

The approach will ensure high profit margins for foreseeable future.

Are Apple and Google needlessly destroying each others margins, here?

Uber "disrupted taxis" by disregarding the law, removing protections for both passengers and operators, and shifting risk on to operators while shifting profit margins to management.

"Apple will either see market share decline or need to sacrifice part of their margins to maintain share." This is a common refrain since about 2010.

The way I'm interpreting this is a new, viable way for Universities to increase profit margins by accepting more students and delegating more of the core offering ("learning") to other students, while saving costs on traditional overhead (facilities, professors) AND increasing sales outreach (online).