Most thought Dell going private was impossible too.
That's, to put it mildly, nonsense. It was a $24B deal, far from the biggest (e.g., HCA was taken private at a valuation in excess of $30B).
If people were against it, it was solely because they thought that it was not a wise strategy, given the nature of its business then (without the benefit of hindsight).
While I agree with your snark it makes me wonder how things came to be this way. iOS and Android dominate the mobile operating system market. By all accounts these new Microsoft phones are really nice but it would appear they have little chance of challenging either iOS or Android. Why is that? Microsoft’s mobile OS isn’t all that bad is it? So is it simply momentum by the two top dogs? Has the consumer made their choice and the other mobile OSs will simply struggle along at the bottom? Has Microsoft burned its bridges with the mass market?
Any ideas?
They are five years too late to the game.
They do not take care of the customer.
They do not worry about the customer experience.
The number of apps will never catch up.
They do not have the economy of scale to innovate hardware.
Oh stop it. Apple was not even close to being the first to start a program like that. It was a natural evolution of all OEMs.
your correct eveyone has offer deals, hell you can get a car with 0% finance for 5 yrs, the problem is it not really 0%, they either jacked up the list price for everyone or they would not give you a big discount as they gave the person paying cash or brought their own financing. Even the cellphone company who give you a free phone are not giving a free phone you just paying for it over time and the finance cost of that are pretty hight like 10% to 30% more. Even when AT&T does thier deals, you end up paying $150 more verse if you just paid for the full cost of the phone. Apple is truely offering 0% whether you pay full price today, of pay a the monthly payment over 2 yrs the total you pay is the same.
So apple is doing this for a number of reason, one they can afford to do it with $200B in the bank, second they want to enure the that Apple Iphone users keep coming back to Apple, They countering what the cell phone company did of not allowing people to turn phones every 2 yrs or so. Also the cellphone companies have been pushing users to other cell phones verse to Apple.
The 0% is good for the customers and they feel like they are being treated fairly. The Second group of items are good for investors it means Apple is protecting their cash stream and possibly grow maket share especial those you understand the value of what apple is doing. In the end it is not going to go well for Samsung. The face Samsung has not counter this tell me they may be barred from doing so with their deal with the cell phone companies since they give incentives to the cellphone companies to offer deals to consumers.
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Most thought Dell going private was impossible too.
That's, to put it mildly, nonsense. It was a $24B deal, far from the biggest (e.g., HCA was taken private at a valuation in excess of $30B).
If people were against it, it was solely because they thought that it was not a wise strategy, given the nature of its business then (without the benefit of hindsight).
Please don't make up stuff.
They are five years too late to the game.
They do not take care of the customer.
They do not worry about the customer experience.
The number of apps will never catch up.
They do not have the economy of scale to innovate hardware.
Oh stop it. Apple was not even close to being the first to start a program like that. It was a natural evolution of all OEMs.
your correct eveyone has offer deals, hell you can get a car with 0% finance for 5 yrs, the problem is it not really 0%, they either jacked up the list price for everyone or they would not give you a big discount as they gave the person paying cash or brought their own financing. Even the cellphone company who give you a free phone are not giving a free phone you just paying for it over time and the finance cost of that are pretty hight like 10% to 30% more. Even when AT&T does thier deals, you end up paying $150 more verse if you just paid for the full cost of the phone. Apple is truely offering 0% whether you pay full price today, of pay a the monthly payment over 2 yrs the total you pay is the same.
So apple is doing this for a number of reason, one they can afford to do it with $200B in the bank, second they want to enure the that Apple Iphone users keep coming back to Apple, They countering what the cell phone company did of not allowing people to turn phones every 2 yrs or so. Also the cellphone companies have been pushing users to other cell phones verse to Apple.
The 0% is good for the customers and they feel like they are being treated fairly. The Second group of items are good for investors it means Apple is protecting their cash stream and possibly grow maket share especial those you understand the value of what apple is doing. In the end it is not going to go well for Samsung. The face Samsung has not counter this tell me they may be barred from doing so with their deal with the cell phone companies since they give incentives to the cellphone companies to offer deals to consumers.