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anantksundaram said:

Rayz2016 said:

Favourite trillion dollar meme making the rounds so far:

”Of course they’re a trillion company. They’re making money off the backs of slaves working in Foxconn factories!!”

Typical reply: 

“Then why aren’t the likes of Microsoft, Dell and HP also trillion dollar companies, since all their kit is made in the same factories, and without the added expense of contractor oversight.

Believe it or not, this was the meme in The Guardian’s annoying little piece on AAPL reaching a trillion yesterday. 

If you can stand the stench take a look at MacRumors comment section. The rage is in full bloom.

macxpress said:

nunzy said:

 Apple doesn't care about market share.

They make a tidy profit on every HomePod they sell. They also use HomePod as a camel's nose Under the Tent in order to solidify their hold on the customer's purchase of future products. All that Apple cares about is maximizing profit. If they could increase profits while servicing only the 1%, they would be eager to do so

Why aren't you banned yet? 

I ignored/blocked him weeks ago. Try it, you’ll like it.

maciekskontakt said:

nunzy said:

Qualcomm is going to get Appled if they keep this up.

If you go up against the king, you best not miss.

"The king"? Well business is business and judges rule what all business MUST do - no discussion. Business does not overrule legislation and execution. They can only negotiate. I would say Qualcomm seems to be asking for trouble by doing this, but Apple is nothing such as "king". It is just a successful business that can be squashed if it does not follow laws and regulations.

Yeah, what about “too big to fail”? What about “laws and regulations” that are onerous, unfair, and anti-business in nature? If Apple were to be squashed, as you put it, the world economy would slump big time.

anome said:

jungmark said:

Do analysts hate being proven wrong yet?

You make the common mistake in believing that they've been proven wrong. Sure, they didn't get the numbers, or even the direction, of Apple's performance correct, but they know that Apple is on its way to a big fail. Just because it didn't happen this time, just means it's going to be worse when it does happen, sometime in the next 20 years.

Basically, in this kind of punditry, there's wrong, and there's anticipative of future developments.

This is about the dumbest post I’ve ever read on this site and I’ve been here since 2005. But then I read some of your other posts and found out I was wrong.

Apple does appear to have a magic sauce. I remember back a decade ago when lots of consumer electronics companies had their own stores. In the Galleria mall in St. Louis there was a Bose store, a Bang & Olufson store, a Brookstone, a Radio Shack. All have since closed and like another post mentioned the Microsoft store is often void of people. Samsung has a very few stores... I guess.

Every single pundit, analyst, and retail “expert” scoffed at Apple opening its own stores. They literally laughed themselves into convulsions. So what do Apple stores have that others don’t? What makes them different?