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Quote: Originally Posted by thomaspatko The MYOB (now Acclivity) package for Mac (AccountEdge) has rather good feature parity with the Windows version and is a reasonable choice for small businesses. http://accountedge.com/mac/ Cheers, T…
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If the new iPad is going to use a dual core cpu I wonder if it will be an A7 derivative like the Qualcom Krait. That chip looks like a speed demon.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Furthermore, it's a silly idea even without the antitrust issues. It could be argued that Apple should strive to be cost competitive (or even a bit lower) than the Galaxy tab or other 'comparable' tablets. But…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 1) The Kindle Fire loses money on every sale. Have you seen Amazon's profits? Have you seen their revenue? Have you seen their P/E? The only area that Apple needs to be concerned with in regards to Amazon is…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Q: Johnny has 10 Apples to sell. He sells them at $3 each with a profit of $2 per Apple. How much profit does Johnny make? A: $20 Q: Johnny has 10 Apples to sell. He sells them at $2 each with a profit o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Note that iSupply only includes the materials costs. To that, you have to add: - Labor - Manufacturing overhead - Quality costs - Rework costs - Warranty costs - Sales and marketing costs - Administrati…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX ...The Kindle Fire selling units is not an issue for Apple if it means that to compete they would lose profit. That's a fool's errand. .... How do you know they would loose money on a $299 iPad? iSupp…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX 18% profit margin? Not only is that halfing the profit margin it's almost getting 1/4 of the profit. While you want that as a customer you need to look at this from Apple's PoV as a seller. They have no …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Generally, companies become 'growth and income' stocks after they are no longer able to grow fast enough to be called a 'growth' stock. That is, it's NOT good news. Apple aren't being valued as a growth sto…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Conrail I wonder what would happen if they bought AMD?.... They'd just be pissing away money on a dying company. AMD don't fabricate chips any more. Global Foundry does this for them. AMD designs generally have b…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta And the part YOU keep missing is that there are several ways to reward shareholders. Are you going to argue that Apple has not rewarded shareholders for the past decade because it doesn't give out dividends? …
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Quote: Originally Posted by sunilraman In general yes, but that's not how Apple is structured. There is no legal and ethical obligation to reward shareholders.... I don't know the legal obligations but I would argue that there is definitely an…
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Quote: Originally Posted by macarena Outside of a share buy back, the next best option for Apple is to use some of this cash to prise open a market that otherwise would be impossible to play in. For instance, take the US Cable business. Entren…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Technarchy The mobile landscape is growing and becoming more competitive. Apple should save the cash for R&D and innovation. They have MORE than enough for this. Apples server farm in North Carolina cost 1…
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Quote: Originally Posted by sunilraman This is what I don't understand. Why would a company with all that money need to issue dividends? . To reward shareholders. They are owners of the business and should get a share of the profits. That's wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ksec Please Dont give back dividends. They should just continue to invest. Most of the so called "CASH" aren't even inside US. And those inside US are continued to be used as operational cost and expenses. R&D, …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Blastdoor Kind of like how cell phones were beyond their core competency as of 2006? Are you really going to argue that banking is their core competency? If so please put forth some reasoning. I'd like to hear i…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Dr Millmoss More than a billion a week, at least based on the Q1 2012 rate of accumulation. Last quarter they were net an eye-popping $16b. Probably this won't be repeated in Q2, but the rate is certainly accelerating …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX There are many reasons to buy back stock but in the case of Apple doing so would strengthen each share. It would be, among other things, an indication from Apple that their stock price is undervalued.. Al…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rabbit_Coach Apple to reinvent the banking system? They reinvented so many things that's true and amazing! And with Tim Cook and his golden hands for everything with finances! Hmm... May not be the craziest Idea. I …