Posts by philipm

  Quote: Originally Posted by irnchriz  Erm, Apple provides REAL sales figures, Samsung reported their profit only, why? So analysts can make wild guesses as to the numbers of devices sold. It's all pie in the sky...

Quote: Originally Posted by waldobushman  If Ballmer is toast if Windows 8 fails, then Ballmer will be the sacrificial lamb. Quite a lot of food groups there He could also get converged to frozen...

  Quote: Originally Posted by tipoo  Getting rid of a 27" monitor and every other part every time you need a CPU or GPU upgrade? No workstation graphics cards or ECC memory? It would work for some, not for...

  Quote: Originally Posted by SpamSandwich  Eventually, half the US will be covered by server farms... but will they also be eligible for farm subsidies?   What do you call a 15-year property tax...

Quote: Originally Posted by jukes The DOJ complaint is awesome, and should be required reading ... I love my Apple products, but if this stuff pans out... Thanks for posting the link. I read it, and you're absolutely right. It's...

To think Apple stock bottomed out at about $3.80 in 1997. 15 years and two 2:1 stock splits later it's not doing too badly. Around about then I would have bought stock if I had the money. Had I put in $2000 back then (which I didn't...

I'm not sure if this has been widely reported but in the last quarter of 2011, iPad sales overtook iPod sales. This is huge, even if iPod numbers dropped a bit (possibly because some potential buyers shifted to iPhone, which also went up...

Quote: Originally Posted by hmm That's a common practice. You're ignorant of it, so you call them trolls? It helps considerably with manufacturing costs by lowering your potential waste. Designing a device with fewer cores is not that...

Steve set an incredibly high bar for product launches. CEOs are generally not good at this style of presentation. Which other Apple CEO was good at it? Ever. And Microsoft. Both their CEOs have been terrible when they try to hype up...

Where have I seen something like that horizon logo before? Try here (scroll down to the grey box at the bottom). Luckily the Australian Greens are neither litigious nor have deep pockets