Posts by Harbinger

How often do people compare Apple products and competitors side by side before choosing? This doesn't happen at the Apple Store. You go in and choose from iPad, iPad2 and iPad Mini.   It doesn't happen much at carriers...

Quote: Originally Posted by pdq2  Agree that the analysts are brain-dead on this one. It's like they had written their stories beforehand. Revenue actually beat average expectations a bit, and profit was minimally...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  But couldn't the case be a bit more expensive (at least initially) if its a different manufacturing process? Oppenheimer kept referring to higher manufacturing costs that they're...

Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  Peter Oppenheimer asked about the pricing of iPad mini and says the mini margins are significantly lower than the rest of their product line. Why is that? Wasn't the thought that they...

Quote: Originally Posted by saarek  My initial comment was regarding what the Mac sales could have been if they'd not dropped the ball on the desktop macs, I did not write off their achievement. The rest of their...

This is so idiotic - analysts who have scant inside information make guesses on profits and revenues. If a company matches these estimates or beat it by a penny, a stock ascends wildly. In this case, Apple is under the top estimates by <...

Quote: Originally Posted by pedromartins  And you can do the math.   half of verizon's sales were iphones, 75% of att sales were iphones, 1.5million at sprint (more than half again, i...

Quote: Originally Posted by Baka-Dubbs    Or logic can be applied to the situation, since these are quarterly numbers.  These numbers include the massive sales spike that occurs everytime a new Iphone...

Quote: Originally Posted by Maestro64  So if you only look at new phone sold and assume that new replaced an old what do the % look like. I think Apple maybe winning in the US. "Maybe" winning?

Quote: Originally Posted by jungmark  everyone knows real fanbois buy an iphone from all 3 of the major carriers. Wrong! All 3 carriers AND the small/regional carriers. I hear that Steve Wozniak has 15 iPhones (and 6...