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• Quote: Originally Posted by drblank      Apple has to claim the $888Mil as income, which is taxable by both State and Federal.   The court costs and attorney fees, if they can't recoup that from Samsung, is an expense.   There are only rare instanc…

  in Jury awards Apple $290 million in patent infringement case with Samsung Comment by arch November 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by drblank  $888MIl less 40% in taxes equals $532 Mil. Then they can recoup the amount they spent on attorneys and court costs. I'm sure Apple is STILL upset about that stupid settlement in the UK where Apple was f…

  in Jury awards Apple $290 million in patent infringement case with Samsung Comment by arch November 2013
• Maybe they want to buyback more stock at the current price before announcing the profit and buyback figures.

  in Apple to report fourth quarter earnings on October 28 Comment by arch October 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by bigdaddyp  Wouldn't 4k be a lot of pixels to push with the mobile processors that the MacBook pros and iMac use? iMacs don't use mobile processors.

  in Apple trimming iMac inventory ahead of Haswell models while resellers cut prices Comment by arch August 2013
• I won't believe all this crap until any money is actually exchanged or device actually banned.

  in ITC calls for import ban against Samsung, rejects Google's flip-flop arguments Comment by arch June 2013
• Samsung + HTC + Motorola = 39.2% = Apple! Waiting for Apple share to get bigger than whole of Android.

  in Apple widens lead over Samsung in U.S. smartphone market Comment by arch June 2013
• The next 'major' announcement is probably going to be Windows 9 release a few years later. MSFT has probably pretty much nothing else. They are seriously lacking behind Apple and Google.   I think Apple has hit the right strategy of pricing it…

  in Microsoft to slash Windows RT licensing fees in effort to boost soft sales - report Comment by arch June 2013
• And Microsoft's stock keeps continuing it's upward journey...  

  in Microsoft to slash Windows RT licensing fees in effort to boost soft sales - report Comment by arch June 2013
• The new 16GB model is simply a replacement for the previous generation iPod. It didn't make sense to keep selling a device with A4 - 3 years old now. Anyways the old gen models camera was quite crappy. They also need to do something about selling …

  in Teardown of Apple's new 16GB iPod touch finds few changes from other 5th-gen models Comment by arch June 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by scotty321  This makes no sense. Why is Apple wasting resources on flyovers? Nobody -- and I mean nobody -- uses this feature of Maps. I don't think anybody even knows how to get into this feature of the Maps …

  in Apple Maps 3D Flyover support comes to Paris Comment by arch May 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by malax  I've always wondered this: does "R&D" (research and DEVELOPMENT) include all the software development costs? Or is it only the more abstract/skunkworks sorts of projects?   Quote: Original…

  in Apple's R&D expenses surge 33%, on pace to top $4 billion this year Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by Plagen  Apple spends more on R&D than Google's profit. No it doesn't! Google annual profit is over $12b i.e. more than Apple's annual R&D

  in Apple's R&D expenses surge 33%, on pace to top $4 billion this year Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by Rogifan  Ah, but don't [insert company names here] spend more R&D as a percent of revenue or whatever than Apple does? I mean that's what we hear every day from Wall Street. Google, Microsoft, Samsu…

  in Apple's R&D expenses surge 33%, on pace to top $4 billion this year Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by BestKeptSecret  Maybe a day late and a dollar short, but I just wanted to comment on this thread. As with every other place, there are uber-rich, rich, middle class and poor people in India. However, being a…

  in Price war breaks out between Apple and Samsung in India Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by KDarling    Sales are further apart, with Samsung over 33% share vs. Apple under 5%.     Samsung just dropped the Grand price in India to 19,500 rupees.   Found a site that calculates…

  in Price war breaks out between Apple and Samsung in India Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by pedromartins  Why 12 and not 8?   Please, let's not try to use samsung strategy. Make a 440 ppi screen (lie about the fact that it is oversaturated pentile screen (330ppi), so crap, much inferior to …

  in Rumor: Apple's next-gen iPhone to boast 12-megapixel camera with improved sensitivity, HDR Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by chabig  Playing catch up how? People understand that there is more to a quality photograph than megapixels. The megapixel race is over, just as the megahertz race is.   Most people still haven't under…

  in Rumor: Apple's next-gen iPhone to boast 12-megapixel camera with improved sensitivity, HDR Comment by arch April 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by e1618978  Manufacturing difficulties in Q1 will have put some pressure on margins, and pushed some sales out into Q2.  Quite soon after Q2 started the shipping delay on iMac and iPhones in the online store d…

  in Apple's Q2 earnings conference call to take place on April 23 Comment by arch April 2013
• In China, India and many other countries most of Samsung's and other Android phone manufacturer's sales come from low end devices. They have plenty of models in $100-300 price range. Some barely even qualify as 'smartphones'.  

  in Samsung topped Apple, Lenovo in China's smartphone market for 2012 Comment by arch March 2013
• Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta  You've got it - except that you've overstated Apple's P/E. It's actually 9 - and closer to 7 after adjusting for cash.   You have overstated too! Thursday closing Share Price = 430.58. Cash…

  in Google passes Apple as top U.S. mutual, hedge fund holding Comment by arch March 2013
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