Apple CEO Tim Cook on cheap smartphones: 'We're not in the junk business'

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  • Reply 182 of 185
    Tim and his team are idiots.

    First, switching gears from being the smart phone that "everyone" in the world uses to the luxury "phone" that only the rich and old use, is like Honda trying to become Ferrari--why bother? Honda made $3.7 billion dollars last year while Ferrari only made a fraction of that ($714 Million).

    Second, your product isn't luxury if that isn't real solid gold or platinum you are holding in your hand--and if you glue a brightly colored plastic case onto the guts of the old iPhone, but ignore advances in technology like increasing the size of windshield so it stretches to the full field of vision the the Honda now offers, then you ain't shipping Ferraris.

    Time to sell that Apple stock...I guess the only smart leaders left in Silicon Valley are over at Google.
  • Reply 183 of 185
    jungmarkjungmark Posts: 6,927member
    lattetown wrote: »
    Tim and his team are idiots.

    First, switching gears from being the smart phone that "everyone" in the world uses to the luxury "phone" that only the rich and old use, is like Honda trying to become Ferrari--why bother? Honda made $3.7 billion dollars last year while Ferrari only made a fraction of that ($714 Million).

    Second, your product isn't luxury if that isn't real solid gold or platinum you are holding in your hand--and if you glue a brightly colored plastic case onto the guts of the old iPhone, but ignore advances in technology like increasing the size of windshield so it stretches to the full field of vision the the Honda now offers, then you ain't shipping Ferraris.

    Time to sell that Apple stock...I guess the only smart leaders left in Silicon Valley are over at Google.

    Each flagship iphone costs the same as it has since the first one. An your analogy fails too.
  • Reply 184 of 185
    crowleycrowley Posts: 10,453member
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    Originally Posted by lattetown View Post



    Tim and his team are idiots.



    First, switching gears from being the smart phone that "everyone" in the world uses to the luxury "phone" that only the rich and old use, is like Honda trying to become Ferrari--why bother? Honda made $3.7 billion dollars last year while Ferrari only made a fraction of that ($714 Million).



    Second, your product isn't luxury if that isn't real solid gold or platinum you are holding in your hand--and if you glue a brightly colored plastic case onto the guts of the old iPhone, but ignore advances in technology like increasing the size of windshield so it stretches to the full field of vision the the Honda now offers, then you ain't shipping Ferraris.



    Time to sell that Apple stock...I guess the only smart leaders left in Silicon Valley are over at Google.

     

    <img class=" src="http://forums-files.appleinsider.com/images/smilies//lol.gif" />  Excellent parody.  It was a parody, right?

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