Personally I don't think that's playing devils advocate. One way to corner a market is to sell low and use your brand. It's just a bit dicey when your 'brand' is the OS that your competitors run on.cleamon wrote: Just being a devil's advocate here, but even if there are only 250k Logic licenses (and I think that's low), at $200 a pop, that's 50 million $$. They may not NEED to make money, but they surely are.
I've never bought into the notion that Logic is a loss leader, $200 is the price of almost every major DAWs upgrade cost, initially it might be 4-600, but a good portion of any DAWs sales are to existing users. Simple math really, Logic costs $200 for every version, no upgrades, so in the end it's about the same cost as other DAWs.