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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If someone has 90% margins but net income of $100m, they aren't going to be valued more highly than Apple with ~20-25% net margins. It comes down to the amount of profit. Apple and Exxon are pretty even when it …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Why would margins affect the valuations? It's about how profitable the company is for investors. There's obviously going to be more of them though. Take this guy who scammed 1500 investors out of tens of mill…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Their revenues are more than double Apple's and they have more assets ($182b). Exxon's market cap is $436b. It seems like this will be another pump and dump. Small-time investors will be pushed into paying mo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Eric38 The govt will eventually pass legislation allowing for a repatriation holiday. If they don't, trillions of profits will be held in other countries indefinitely. So, Apple's cash overseas of $100B plus will somed…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hmm Why not look up the breakdown of it? How it sounds doesn't really matter. Each of those numbers is calculated from a number of factors. It shouldn't be difficult to comprehend. Oh, thanks for the advice! Math…
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"Samsung sold 10.7 million infringing products. Samsung, the company that broke the law, took in $3.5 billion. You will decide how much of that $3.5 billion will be returned to Apple." Apple is seeking $113 million in lost profits for 360,000 iPhon…
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If this article were Jeopardy, then the answer, or actually the question would be, "when is winning more like losing?"
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Why hasn't anyone mentioned that the mangled hand story is fictitious as well? There is no way that a worker could have mangled their hand in a metal press, making iPads. Apple uses a unibody process on iPads and MacBooks, which mills the case ou…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dunks Sad. I wanted to invest in AAPL stock way back in 2003, but I couldn't spare the cash at the time (I was a university student living on 2 minute noodles). Pity, Apple has appreciated 100x since March of 2003. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Jack99 I'd hate to sound condescending, but sadly, that's how corporations operate. Try reading some articles on the Wallstreet Journal to see what I mean. This isn't about having expectations too high. Apple operates …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX And with EDGE as the maximum cellular data tech. I've used EDGE in China on China Mobile. It's fine. The signal is incredibly strong even in the countryside. I don't want to know how many watts their towe…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cameronj I don't think smartphone sales really impact GPS sales, for one. I've seen one person use his phone as a GPS in his car, it was a total pain in the ass. I use mine sometimes, but I also have a regular GPS. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by kresh is that why the display case in the picture is 3/4 full, hehe nice try So, I guess the stories of 3rd-party retailers being unhappy with not getting enough product is not true?
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Quote: Originally Posted by AjitMD What about Greater China? Mainland China, HK, Macau, Taiwan? Apple must have enough production capacity yet. Ran out of inventory. Launches in Singapore at the end of October. Everyone from HK, China, Taiw…
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I remember going to HK from Beijing on a train, took 36 hours to Guangzhou, and another 6 hours to HK. with my Mac SE, way back in 1988 to get a new release of the Chinese version of Mac OS 4.3. I still have those disks somewhere. I may have been th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bregalad Steve Jobs makes me laugh. The resolution of the 3.5" iPhone (640x960) is almost as high as the resolution of the 9.7" iPad (768x1024). Do people have to file down their fingers to pencil points to use the iPh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by DrDoppio Sent from my cherry red Streak. A bloody stool is not good. You need to see your doctor immediately!
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram I have to believe that this kind of dominance -- even though utterly wrongly -- will start to attract antitrust scrutiny. Competitors are going to start to moan and groan about Apple using its high-volum…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Galbi This graph is lumping mobile apps sales into the mobile phone profits as one. It's not a good representative of the real data. Notice the drastic change from Q2 2008 to Q3 2008. Difference in categorization i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by John.B The early iPhone revenues were amortized over two years which made the early quarters smaller than they otherwise would've been and later quarters larger than they would've been. No, those have been adjusted.…