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My VZW corporate store has one iPhone display with 3 units, tucked away in a corner of the store. The rest of the store is rows and rows and rows of non-iPhones. I literally had to ask the sales rep where the iPhones were. He said the iPhone was …
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Well, now all we need is an Andy Zaky article to 'splain all this away...
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Isn't this kind of like Apple not detailing iTunes profits during its quarterly calls? iTunes and Android are ancillary businesses...
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider More users say they'll likely buy iPhone 4S than can find fault in it Actually, 29% of all smartphone users found fault versus only 24% that planned to buy it ("not sure" does not mean "likely"). And 4…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ZachB10 Maybe I'm missing the point of the web interface of iCloud. No photo icon to view the PhotoStream via the web? No way to view documents except if you've purchased Pages / Numbers / Keynote? How about I buy t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by cajun I just go straight to the Comments page for every article, since it reprints the article in full minus the graphics and the ads. I read AI at work, and I don't want the big, splashy images on my monitor that AI l…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dasanman69 That'd be funny I'd they weren't way past using "C" but nonetheless you get a +1 for effort. Wouldn't Salty Chocolate Balls solve both issues?
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pendergast It is the studios. The rights holders don't want progress, because it messes with their status quo where they make a boat load of money. They're afraid of Netflix. They're afraid of change. It's the same …
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ExtremeTech has a good post (here) about the iPhone 4S being a "safe bet" that Apple can sell tons of until it has the technological edge to release a "truly exceptional" iPhone 5. I won't try to re-hash the article here, but it's probably the mo…
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Another article elsewhere cited the Whole Earth Catalog as one of Jobs' philosophical sources, definitely interesting to look at some of the early editions online and see some similarities.
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta I can't imagine any way that I'd buy the iPhone 4 instead of the 4S for only $100 difference. And I suspect that most people would feel the same way. But, fortunately, you have the choice. Last year, the i…
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I think it's strange (perhaps even disappointing) for many of us to watch an iPhone/iPad release event and not come away thinking "gotta have it". Hell, I broke out my wallet for a $199 paperweight after the Amazon event last week (and I've already…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AppleInsider Apple's acquisition of Siri has resulted in a standout feature for iPhone 4S that promises to change how users interact with mobile devices. Pardon the skepticism, but Siri gained little traction as a f…
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Only here is the absence of a rumored event an event...
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Cost of running the store is part of the cost of selling the products. When we talk about books, music and video, we are talking about a 30% cut that Amazon, and pretty much everyone else gets. Out of that, co…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Well, don't even make a statement about RIM selling their design. There's really no point to that, unless you personally have some info that you know. Seriously? Enforcing that standard would eliminate 90%…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Their gross margin wasn't 3.37%. their net margin (profit) was. So say that I bought 50 books at $8. At a five percent profit, that would be about $20 profit for them. But, they still incur all the costs…
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Quote: Originally Posted by melgross R&D is a fixed cost, yes, but it must be apportioned to the number of devices sold. The fewer sold, the more the R&D cost hangs over. You have no idea if this has anything to do with the Playbook, even…
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Or it could just be that Samsung (and others) might think that the Microsoft platform could be just as decent as Android from the average consumer's perspective. The hardware requirements can't be that different... if you're a hardware company t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Wurm5150 $180 is just BOM probably and doesn't include R&D, licensing, packaging, delivery, among others. So Amazon probably is losing money off of it. But they do that all the time. That's their business model to …