Posts by waldobushman

This is not just a Surface problem (pun intended) -- it is a core problem. Windows 8 is awful, at least on the ASUS laptop I was playing with. Maybe it was the awful bundled software ASUS installed, but Windows 8 is just pitiful. Add...

But, 1M shares is a huge sell-off if done quickly, warping the price. Especially with robotic trading, a huge drop in price orchestrated by hedge funds would mean that those trying to sell for more would be able to only if they would...

Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  You're both misunderstanding this. Revenue IS the amount of money you bring in. The TOTAL amount. Then you subtract all your costs and what is left over is profit. Profit...

Of course, the amounts paid to developers are not Revenue, they are Expenses. Duh.

What would happen if we banned analysts altogether. They don't do or know anything useful. Never have. The problem is gambling. The price of stocks have nothing to do with a company's fundamentals. The solution is investors have to...

AAPL came in 2.5B over their estimate. That is not a miss. Analysts are always wrong.

If rumors are correct, Tim Cook, unlike SJ, is openly more concerned with stock price. Of course, after SJ's passing, Apple stock went into orbit, so SJ was not tested in that new environment. Tim Cook certainly must be concerned with...

I wouldn't put bets on NFC. There are different versions and each takes substantial investments for retailers to implement. And it requires it's own antenna. Low power bluetooth, however, is already here and in most devices. With cameras...

How desperate can he be? He had hidden hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goodies. Imagine if he had sold any of them, then he would not have been desperate, right? Seems his only skill was stealing stuff. He wasn't smart enough...

As some level, once SJ knew what it's value was to Apple and what he thought was a good price from the sellers viewpoint, he made his offer. This is sometimes called Boulwarism (mistakenly often referred to as "take-it-or-leave-it"...