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Why on earth anyone (at least anyone who frequents Apple-centric sites like AI/etc) is surprised by this, I have no idea. John Gruber of DF has been pointing out that comparable 18K Gold watches sell for 10K for weeks now, and all of the recent ne…
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It occurs to me that if their *unit sales* are also up overall, that would naturally mean a corresponding increase in emissions.
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Or they could just, you know, pay their f*cking taxes. On top of it being the right thing to do, think of the PR/image boost of a huge global corporation actually acting like a patriotic American citizen should? My guess is that they'd see quite a…
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This reminds me of the famous story about how Dustin Hoffman, in preparing for his role in "Marathon Man", stayed awake for 72 hours to play his exhausted character as convincingly as possible. His co-star, Sir Laurence Olivier, asked him why he loo…
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Very interesting way to handle the story. However, I'm surprised that he isn't making it *FOUR* product intros: It seems to me that the original iMac intro should be included, since that marked the rebirth of Apple under Jobs. Original Mac / NeXT /…
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Of course, I suppose it could also be argued that they have too many stores in Pennsylvania... (kidding)
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Who knows, perhaps Apple will decide to cut out the middleman and just start manufacturing the things themselves. Lord knows they have the money to cover the startup costs, and if anyone can find a decent margin in the industry, they can...
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...but that seems kind of, um, underwhelming considering that the guy was paid almost $30 Million in 2010 alone. Not saying that he *should* get paid more (Lord knows CEO's are making an obscene amount these days already), just seems odd to me; w…
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...mean to an individual shareholder? The article speculates on "250 base points, or $2.40 per quarter" Is that $2.40 per share? So, if I owned 100 shares of AAPL, would that mean I'd receive $240 per quarter, or $960 per year?
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Quote: Originally Posted by dmarcoot I have read multiple accounts in his passing thats Jobs favorite thing was to take long walks and walking and talking and looking at the trees was his preferred way of discussing big ideas one on one. Even wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ConradJoe Because that way they can profit off of both the screen and the electronics which feed it. Apple buys lots of screens already. They get low prices on screens already. And they know how to sell medium-qua…
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...is why they would bother embedding all of this stuff into a full HDTV instead of just beefing up Apple TV? No, people don't want a bunch of cables & boxes, but if Apple TV was capable of everything they're talking about, it would just be t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by shen So it seems likely to move to an 8mp camera, A5 chip, gig of ram, 64 gigs storage, and be able to run a voice recognition system that no current phone can run... ...and if it looks the same you will find it dis…
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Quote: Originally Posted by serkol ...I don't think that currently these users make the largest part of all Mac OS X users...right now I think that most Mac OS X users can install apps. Actually, sadly, no--or, at least, most computer users ha…
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...better than I did (see my post just above this one): Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism Honestly I can?t see my mom going to one of those sites to download an app. Even if she found the site how does she know she can then go to the devel…
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...however, as others have noted, that's an unrealistic example, because anyone looking to purchase a professional, high-end product like that likely doesn't need the App Store to hold their hand, so to speak. I'd imagine the Mac App Store is int…
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Quote: In the survey of 65 consumers I'm sure the iPad *is* preferred, but a survey of 65 people has a margin of error of like +/- 25% or something. Lemme put it this way: Political polls generally survey at least 400 voters, and even then th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anonymouse "Black Friday" has never been the biggest shopping day of the holiday season, which is the Saturday before Christmas. (Panic buying.) Sales might be a little front loaded this year since Hanukkah falls relat…
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Quote: He noted that Black Friday weekend typically accounts for 10 percent of holiday sales This is all fantastic news for Apple and Mac fans, but I'm always amused by statistics like the one above, states as if it's amazingly impressive. "B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macFanDave This is how accountants defraud people. They show charts and graphs based on arbitrary definitions and half-truths to lie without actually lying. iPhones ARE iPods. iPads are less so, although they do h…