Posts by Michael Scrip

Quote:Originally Posted by mstone It bears mentioning that much of the $1500 you refer to goes to building towers, which Verizon has more than any other carrier, as well as all the back haul infrastructure, stores, employees, taxes,...

File this under "DUH" Even if Verizon has to write a $450 check to Apple to subsidize the iPhone 4... Verizon still ends up with around $1500 over the life of that contract. The customer gets the "free" iPhone 4 they want... and...

Quote:Originally Posted by ifij775 I don't quite get what the target market is any more for the Mac Pro. I doubt the revenues are even worth mentioning in financial reports. I imagine they keep some guy from Next around updating...

Quote:Originally Posted by mvigod This is not good for apple. With a much lower average selling price (ASP) they have to sell twice as many just to do the same revenue and profit on these. Well... people buy what they want. The...

Quote:Originally Posted by Galbi Earth to Slurpy, analysts are about the future, not of the past. Those figures are past numbers. Fortunes for a company can change over night. This is especially true in the high tech...

Quote:Originally Posted by jragosta "Population" is a statistical term. It doesn't mean "every person on the planet"; it means "the group that is being evaluated". In this case, the population is enterprise usage. Unless someone...

Quote:Originally Posted by jragosta Before anyone gets too excited about this, it's just like all the ones that show that Android is winning. It's a useless set of data since there's no way to ensure that the data is representative...

Quote:Originally Posted by majjo I don't think Google syncs photos or SMS (unless you use Google voice). True... I was speaking more about contacts. Like I said... people used to "lose" their phone numbers all the time. That...

Quote:Originally Posted by Rogifan God this story reads like something that would come from cnet.  My guess is HTC is targeting more than iPhone users, but throwing iPhone or Apple in the headline gets more clicks. Well... the...

Quote:Originally Posted by Gatorguy Yes, Google's Android automatically backs up your contacts. Thanks... I thought so. I remember countless times hearing "I lost my phone... send me your phone numbers" long ago. Android kinda...