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Quote: Originally Posted by Ingela LOL Are you kidding me? I'm only talking about things that are only obvious. What you notice to be obvious. As I explained to MStone above, a properly run assembly line can handle any…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Technarchy In Apple's own words they are using low grade 6000 series aluminum alloy, when they should have used forged 7075 T6 with a hard coat anodize and Teflon coated. Had they done that the iP…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone Because the multi-step process required for the machined aluminum parts is more complicated with the proximity to shape instruments in the subsequent steps verses the one step process of injection mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ingela Jesus what's with some of you people. Let's just say that if anything happened to a plastic one, people are going to give a lot less fucks than a milled aluminum one with a crystal polished cha…
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He is still there, just no longer working in the US. His face is on the exec page of international websites.
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I believe the poster was referring to susceptibility of scratching during the manufacturing process when it is being moved around in the assembly line in proximity to sharp instruments as it was in r…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ingela But that's far from beyond the point. Far from beyond the point? What does that even mean? I understand far from the point and beyond the point. But ... far from beyond the pt sounds …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ingela Jesus are you serious! One piece of quickly cast plastic vs much costlier, time consuming easily scratched and dented machined aluminum with precision crystalline diamond cut chamfered ed…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I would disagree with this. I much prefer surfing the web and using email on my 30" Cinema screen with a mouse. I have purchased a few iPads and they are an inferior experience to an actual computer …
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How are some of these discounts possible? Are they simply loss leaders
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Quote: Originally Posted by ipen Totally agree. But wait, Apple is counting on everyone in the family or your friends/relatives will get their own ipads instead of borrowing yours. That'll increase profits which Google doesn't…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tkell31 Just goes to show how powerful dilution is. They bought 36 million shares, but the share count is only down 18 million from the same time last year. So they've used up 18 billion of the 60 billion …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SockRolid So why, again, did Google blow $12.5 billion on Motorola Mobility? I can think of a few reasons: 1. Patent panic 2. Lack of vertical integration 3. Lack of due diligence 4. All o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flaneur 1. An example of an incorrect emotional response: the iPad mini will never sell at that price, Apple is crazy for charging that much for a screen with that pixel density and a tablet with only 16…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macinthe408 Someday, a Chinese product leaker will take a picture that isn't out-of-focus. Maybe they use new iPhones that are only partly assembled (i.e. no optics)
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Quote: Originally Posted by Flaneur This is the correct emotional response, seems to me. The thing, even if fake, is absolutely delicious looking. Many left-brainers won't get this. Some might when they hold one in their han…
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Quote: Originally Posted by johnnielse This article pretty much sums up my thoughts on the matter. http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2013/5/23/on-market-share So you thought of all those points and Ben just happened to…
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Quote: Originally Posted by asdasd They don't issue one report and one 10Q with different figures. That's because only one of them is an official filing. Earnings calls are primarily a chance to discuss the earning…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Some people looking to save a buck or two must not value their lives all that highly. Is a life worth $10 bucks? Mine certainly isn't. One thing is buying a cheap ass mouse or somethin…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MikeJones This is a picture from one of the Chinese stories about it. Since when does Apple make a charger that looks like that? From: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/…