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Quote: Originally Posted by Kavik Now Verizon on the other hand limits just about *everything* you can do with your own phone, with Sprint being a close second. Yeah VZW is the worst. They cripple critical features (e.g. Bluetooth) and dictat…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram All that said, I truly wish Apple would tone down its arrogance. If we were talking about actual end users, then I would agree. But we're talking about telecom companies, which - if they're anything …
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I really want to get one for an offsite backup server (but I can't purchase it until next year). This will be annoying if true.
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Quote: Originally Posted by rpm16601 Yet one more reason VZW is of no interest. TFTFY. AT&T/Cingular is not great, but VZW's continued insistence on crippling all the phones it sells just sends a big FU message to its customers. Perh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macshark Although 35.1 percent gross margin is great for the bottomline, it also indicates that some Apple products are perhaps a bit overpriced....Apple needs to introduce new models at slightly lower price points to …
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People have been booting Vista in Boot Camp for almost a year now. And the whole point of Boot Camp is that you are booting an entirely different OS - there is no "integration" between the two OSes (unlike Parallels, where they run side-by-side). …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sevendusted unfortunately some websites only offer Real files, in order to view certain videos. such as a local news station here in nyc... www.ny1.com if you want to view any of their videos, you NEED real pla…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Yes, I'm listen to that. I don't remember the sales a year ago that quarter, but I don't remember the drop. Last year's sales were 1.236 million Macs in Q4 and 1.254 million Macs in Q1 (vs. 1.610 million Q4…
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Quote: Originally Posted by solipsism 40 million people x $400 per phone = $1.6B gross profit - 35% = 560M net profit This post makes no sense. First of all, 40 million x $400 is $16B, not $1.6B. Second, "gross profit" refers to profit befor…
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My main question is whether the participants understood that an "iPod phone" was specifically referring to an Apple product, or whether many of them simply interpreted the term "iPod phone" to simply refer to any phone that plays music (i.e., do the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater MS is known for selling hardware at a loss because unlike Apple they understand they are a software, not hardware company. And what you are failing to realize is that there is no software to sell here.…
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater The fact is the better Zune does the more creative Apple will have to become to hold their market share. If the Zune does tank thats bad for everyone because competition creates innovation. I agree t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Apple would LOVE to have 50% margins on a hardware item. It just isn't happening. The Pro models do a bit better than 30%, and the rest go lower, to a bit over 18% for the lowest Mini. Not that that isn't very…
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The $64,000 question, of course, is how this compares to the release of the 1G iPod. Well, I've found those numbers. The short answer: 1G iPod did at least 5 to 10 times better than Zune. In the first two months following its release (Nov/Dec 2…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross With a fairly poor player with only one semi cool advantage, they still did a eighth of Apples' HD player business. You are assuming that they didn't take any share from Creative, Toshiba, etc. That is …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wil Maneker I second your motion. The Zune, like it or not, is here to stay. Were these numbers representing Apple worldwide marketshare, the 2% (Nov) to 3% (Dec) jump would have warranted the sounding of trump…
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Quote: Originally Posted by monkeyastronaut maybe a zune nano is in the works. they're not complete idiots. eventually they'll figure out that the nano is the most popular ipod and that it is the one they should be copying. 1) If you are in t…
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"Actually, I'm pretty impressed. MS had no marketshare at all and took 2% in just some months. It may be going slow, but it could have been a lot worse." LOL, that is hardly impressive given that they are taking a big loss on each player sold (at…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Eduardo Microsoft isn't dumb. They know that their first cut of the Zune will not take over the iPod, but if they can supplant the #2 player in this iteration, then they've accomplished a lot. From the #2 spot, they can…
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Quote: Originally Posted by umijin Plus Apple's laptops aren't particularly attractive, even their low end, because they are MUCH HEAVIER than similarly priced PC laptops (5lbs vs. 2 or 3 lbs). This is completely untrue. Please find a Core Duo…