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Quote: Originally Posted by MikeJones Clearly the people running Apple have no clue. It's a good thing the armchair CEOs like yourself are around to teach them how to run things. Are you seriously implying it wouldnt make a lot of sense to…
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Read an article in Forbes (so take it for what it's worth) that by 2020 600 million people in China will have "middle class" incomes. Who knows what phones will look like by then or if it will still be relevant, but the consumer buying power in Chi…
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Uh, has it not dawned on anyone there that gold would be a good color to add? Little slow on the uptake given the demand for the gold iPhone and what gold means in China.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Enigmamatic C You don't know much about China. China is full of wealthy people and plenty of people that are willing to pay for the iPhone 5c and 5s. China's population is 1.35 billion not ~300 million like the US. …
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Quote: Originally Posted by mocseg sandroidiego: 1) They actually sold two different phones this time. That means people who had put off an upgrade could get the new 5C for a lower price than if they had gotten the 5 (despite the 5 and 5C ba…
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Apple did what they needed to do to drive this number up. An aggressive buyback of old phones...it only follows people with credit for an iPhone5S were going to upgrade to it, how much did this impact the opening weekend? Releasing the phone gl…
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Apple execs said to be perplexed why color matters to people. Since the perfect phone is one size and one color it's irrational people would want to deviate from that.
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I just dont get all the attention the 5c is getting. Functionally it isnt much different than the 5 so pricing the 5c at the old phone's price makes sense as it will serve largely the same function from a price point standpoint. I can only assume …
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One of the Chinese carriers announced pre-orders of over 100K phones. That seems pretty bad considering the 5 sold 2 million phones in the first three days it was available in China. So double 100K because there are two carriers and lets say preor…
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100K seems really, really weak considering they sold millions of phones in China in 2012. Figure there is another major carrier so double that to 200K and still seems like they are really light. They sold 2 million iPhone 5s in China in 3 days las…
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Am I losing my mind? The 5c is basically 5 with different "clothes." Why in the world would they sell like a new model? To me that is a non-story as the issue is the 5S. Frankly I have my doubts about the 5S, but that should be the focus, not h…
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Why does anyone think people will be up ordering these? And the one people will want, the 5S, isnt available online. Brilliant move by Apple (that's sarcasm). As a shareholder it's pretty pathetic they are limiting the release of their newest pho…
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Microsoft has sucked for so long they might as well try anything.
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I think the more concerning issue is not selling the 5S on line. That is going to hurts sales. Sure, it will make for some great video as people who would normally buy online go to stores (lines), but there will also be a large percentage of onlin…
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Odd to release the 5s to every country when they have production problems. Seems like the easiest way to hide that would be to first release to the US then slowly add additional countries. But whatever, I think people are getting used to Apple not…
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Quote: Originally Posted by tarfungo Well as much as I'd like to help get criminals off the street, I'm flummoxed about 'helping' the Police with their stated duties. I can't remember that last time a cop or any other public official stopped …
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Quote: Originally Posted by drewys808 Not a game changer in/of itself. But add China Mobile (coming), aTV, developing markets, iTunes, laptops, iPads, software and its ridiculously low PE ratio (that could easily be justified higher) and you h…
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Nice 2-3% bump to EPS. Certainly not a game changer, but any positive impact on revenue and EPS helps with things looking flatline at best.
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I guess the message to take out of this is there is only so much money you can squeeze out of the smartphone market and Apple is topped out. If they cant come up with a profitable lower end phone that wont cannibalize high end sales then this prici…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum Yep! Recent articles have suggested that the "sweet spot" was the equivalent pf US $489 ($549 5C entry model) for the masses in BRIC countries. They missed that by $60 or 12%. Likely, Appl…