While corporations -- including Apple -- keep financial information locked away except for those items that require public disclosure, the job of Wall Street analysts like Horace Dediu of Asymco is to take bits of information scattered hither and yon and meld them into a more realistic model of how a company is performing. Dediu took App Store numbers released on January 7 by Apple, mixed it with existing info, and came to some fascinating conclusions:
The iTunes economy defined as gross revenues transacted through it is now about $12 billion/yr.
Over the last five years content owners (media and app) received a total of $
