ericthehalfbee

MplsP said:

FIrst - i find it amazing how much this bothers people. 

I don't think some arbitrary valuation is what bothers people. It's all the idiots/hypocrites posting. When Apple passed $1 trillion market cap there were a lot of people trying to downplay it and claiming it doesn't matter. Now that Microsoft has passed Apple suddenly market cap matters? Hypocrites.

The only thing consistent is a bunch of losers looking for another way to bash Apple.

MplsP said:

Second, our small business switched to Office 365 earlier this year and all I can say is what a gawd-awful mess. If that’s the future of MS they wont’ have the lead for long.

I've been using Office 365 for a couple years at home/work and find it works great. Curious what problems you're having.

And the price? It's like paying regular price for cloud storage from Google or Dropbox and getting a full version of Office thrown in for free. It's a bargain.

canukstorm said:

usmccop said:

canukstorm said:

asdasd said:

canukstorm said:

Doesn't say much.  It can simultaneously be the best-selling iPhone model and not sell according to management's expectation

However, it does contradict the analysts. 

Doesn't contradict anything.  Having the XR be the single best-selling iPhone model since it launched and having XR productions cuts due to not selling according to management's initial expectations can simultaneously be true.

What production cuts? None of us know if there were production cuts. This stock manipulation happens every year. Maybe there were cuts or maybe not. I’d go with the latter. 

But suppliers do know.  And this year there's enough info coming out regarding supplier production cuts for there to be truth behind it.  Also, if you read the original CNet article, Joswiak was asked about analysts' comments with respect to production cuts and he didn't answer it.  He deflected to the same vague PR line.  Doesn't sound like confidence to me

Doesn't mean a thing. These rumors have come out before and turned out to be false. In fact, I can't think of a single analyst prediction that has EVER been right. Further, I have never seen an official response from a supplier saying their "cuts" were as a direct result of the iPhone, since many of them make components for other products as well.

The most important thing to keep in mind is Apple guidance of $89-93 billion this quarter. Made at their earnings call at the beginning of November. Which means Apple already had a full month (October) of sales not only from their own stores (and online) but also commitments from carriers and other retailers to go by. I'm curious how Apple (called a one-trick pony for the iPhone making a large portion of their revenues) could have record revenues and a large drop in iPhone sales.

Awesome. Knowing how upset “Zuck the Fuck” is at Cooks comments makes me smile.

Apple/Cook were very smart, IMO, to keep talking about privacy these last few years. They knew a backlash would come and they’d be sitting pretty on the right side.

Meh. Let me know when enough iPhones catch fire to cause Apple to completely cease production and issue a full blown recall.

Mentioning iOS 12.1 is a bit misleading. When phones catch fire it’s almost always while charging. Whatever activity was occurring at that time (playing a game, updating iOS or nothing at all) is irrelevant and is nothing more than click bait.

Margins in the 40% range are very good for a company selling physical goods.

But they pale in comparison to the margins over at Google (average of 61% for the past 10 years) or Microsoft (average approaching 70% and a record high of 80%). Yet I don't see anyone giving them a hard time about how much money/profit they're raking in.