Posts by Capnbob

Quote: Originally Posted by Analytyx Apple reports "The company sold 16 million iPhones and made $10.7 billion from the iPhone and accessories alone." NOTE: "and accessories" Nokia: "Nokia''s net sales jumped...

Quote: Originally Posted by neiltc13 Surprised so many of these are selling. It really isn't a product worthy of homes when there are devices that do so much more available. It would be cool to have an Apple TV, but I can't justify...

Quote: Originally Posted by drobforever Samsung would have to keep producing own phones/tablets/computers (obviously higher margin than just selling components to Apple) and even do a lot of other things like medical equipments in...

Quote: Originally Posted by cgc0202 So, a blog site or some trendsupdates,com posted a graph, and yuou immediately accepted it to be factual? How reliable are they? Did they give any information to prove the veracity of their...

So it took Apple making more in net income in calendar 2010 than Acer had revenue to prove to them that operating model built on margins might work? Acer's net margins were <2.5% in 2010. Bravo Acer, bravo.

Quote: Originally Posted by cgc0202 It is likely that more than four billion people in the world cannot even afford a phone, more than a biilion may even have the romotest idea about phones because most of their time and efforts are so...

Quote: Originally Posted by rhyde Seriously, though, it will be interesting to see if high-end Android tablets repeat the same gains that happened in the high-end smart phone market. To clarify, I don't think that Android HAS made...

Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 But even that is not too important. I will be surprised if Android tablets don't follow the same development curve like Android phones. I don't think iPad will keep hardware advantage for long, but...

Quote: Originally Posted by Morky I would agree except that Android has more than a foothold in the phone space at this point, largely thanks to the period of AT&T exclusivity. There are a lot of Android phone users out there that...

Quote: Originally Posted by tomlawler If samsung's sell thru for their galaxy tab was "smooth", then this is what "rough" looks like. Rough trade? I thought my transaction was surprisingly "smooth".