Posts by Spacepower

The calendar 4Q2012 the entire PC market was estimated to be less than 90 million units, that includes Macs and PCs using AMD chips. The iOS device market including iPads, iPhones, iPod Touches , and AppleTVs sold around 80 million...

Another crappy AI post with little to no insight Another copy and past from mainstream media. If someone read the whole email, Jobs was suggesting price caps, not inflated prices.. Will the DOJ win this, who knows. The government bent...

There's a general lack of analysis here. This isn't an expensive flagship phone like the galaxy S4, HTC One, or iPhone 5. This phone is aimed at young people who would upgrade their smartphone between June and September. Students who...

I'm really confused by the youth of today. They subscribe to anti-gov big brother conspiracy theories and complain about the government tracking them. They also claim big rich evil corporations control the governments. Yet they...

Quote:Originally Posted by Cash907 Only that's exactly the case when the retailer is Apple, who maintains strict control over the prices their products are sold at. No third party retailer can offer a discount or promotion on new...

When a retailer puts Apple products on sale, it doesn't necessarily mean Apple teamed up with them. Did Apple team up with Macmall? Some basic comprehension of retail business is needed here. My suspicion is that Best Buy decide to cut...

I find all the Element product line odd on the Mac platform. It makes more sense on Windows without apps such as iPhoto or iMovie, which are pretty decent. It seems more a product as a value added bonus when buying a new camera? In my...

Quote:Originally Posted by pedromartins ok, this data deserves a nice discussion. Apple reached the limit of what a premium 4" phone can do, and that's 4.5 billion profit per quarter (+-). If they want to earn marketshare to give...

Thank you Apple. When app descriptions start looking like horrible craiglists and backpage ads, I'm glad Apple has constrained this behavior.

Quote:Originally Posted by caliminius  Did both of you fail to notice that that this article never mentions where that ad money was actually spent? Android has 25%, which is guaranteed to be 25% that is NOT going to Apple. That...