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Quote: Originally Posted by GTR You are all brave men. I admire you. I would do the same, as I have 100% faith in Apple. Unfortunately, I have even more faith in America's inability to pay it's debts in the near future and, if they end up d…
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If they showed profit instead of revenues, it would really be outrageous. I'm guessing Apple had well north of 50% of proits, given that so much of the industry is barely squeaking out a profit. 75% wouldn't surprise me.
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The fact that iOS accounts for a substantially higher share among the "all smartphone" group compared to the "first-time buyer" group (and vice versa for Android) would suggest that once buyers have owned an Android, they're much more inclined to sw…
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Apple can just use its cash hoard and buy Germany. Then the judges would be working for them.
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Quote: Originally Posted by bohannjn Ok. 54% of users were extremely satisfied. The more interesting figure is what is the combined number of users who were both "Extremely satisfied" plus users who were "Satisfied". To me that is the important n…
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Quote: Originally Posted by chabig Lots of people say this, but what is the evidence? Never has Apple required competition to innovate. Competition didn't create the iPod, iPhone, or iPad. This is so true. As you point out, Apple has inno…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss But then, if you'd made the same bet a few years ago when AAPL was selling at a similar earnings multiple it would have been the wrong bet. Investors are willing to pay what seem, at the time, like outrageo…
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Quote: Originally Posted by kresh Why? The Kindle Fire is not what compressed margins this quarter. Amazon's margins have been suppressed for the past few quarters due to the huge spending on physical warehouse construction, cloud infrastructur…
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Quote: Originally Posted by GQB My bet is that you'll see a $349 iPad 2 when the iPad 3 rolls out (or shortly thereafter), and which point a $300 Fire is DOA. Apple really should do this, precisely due to the threat of a 10-inch Fire. If Ap…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gprovida Amazon is selling tablets to those who would not have bought an iPad [as noted by Tim Cook based on iPad sales data] that is bringing a new market segment to bear. Whether this will be a threat to Apple iPad …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Smallwheels If Apple makes a mistake like RIM or some other platform comes out that is better than the iPhone, they could crash like others have in the past. Innovation comes from all parts of the world. One day an Ind…
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What nonsense. First of all, it's a crock to compare published data for iPad's actually sold, compared to guesses about other tablets which simply shipped. Secondly, it is absurd to put the Fire in with the rest of the Android tablets. They o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Hey! Look! I guess it is physically possible for Amazon to release their sales numbers! Wonder why they don't do it anymore? maybe it has something to do with how terrible they are? Well, this chart…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Hey! Look! I guess it is physically possible for Amazon to release their sales numbers! Wonder why they don't do it anymore? maybe it has something to do with how terrible they are? Well, this chart…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Ireland No doubt the debated bundling it into Pages, but I bet they thought it needed too many of its own custom buttons and its own custom toolbar and that it would be taken far more serious if it was its own app with…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone This actually is a problem in many situations. I have been playing around with the software and also downloaded the 'Life on Earth" textbook. In my opinion iBooks and iBooks Author are beta level of completion. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sirozha I will ignore the troll and will not bite. It is curious, though, that Pages have been able to export files into the ePub format for a year and a half now, but the newly released iBooks Author cannot do thi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Goldenclaw What I love especially is begging for school funding to get new computers, then having to ask for an OS update 6 months later, then needing to shell out thousands for new versions of all of our software. All…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mstone I think his point was that it should have been designed to do that. It would be a nice feature but it is counter productive to Apple's dominate the world agenda.I remember the old days of Quark publishing where …
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Quote: Originally Posted by DelMiller Actually the math is wrong here. 78 is a 32% increase over 59 -- not 20% Quote: Originally Posted by cnocbui Spot on. This 'study' smacks more of marketing than scientific inquiry. Devices do not impr…