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jmoore5196 said:

John Ruskin once said that people who focus on price alone are the legitimate prey of marketplace value leaders.

Apple's loudest critics know plenty ... including the price of everything.  But they know the value of almost nothing at all.

sarrica said:

The last line ad hominem wasn't needed and undermines the rest of the article.

Sorry, but it accurately describes the anti-Apple brigade who, by virtue of their endless articles and opinions and doomsaying crudely prove on an ongoing basis that they truly don't know anything. 

Like Bidtds, they think that knowing the price of something is more important than knowing the value of something, but only an idiot thinks that a $50 supermarket Android has the same utility, build quality, feature set, speeds, memory, storage and more than an iPhone 11 or 11 Pro Max. Or an iPhone 7 or even a 6S you can buy for less than $200 which still runs iOS 13. 

Be the man, woman or insert-your-gender here that knows that value is not ascribed by price alone. It's clear that by your statement, you didn't understand that last line, and Bidtds doesn't understand the stand either, or neither of you would be complaining about it.  

bigtds said:

You can spin it any way you want, but $1000 monitor stand is still a joke.

crowley said:

corrections said:

It is not doing just fine, because those numbers are revenues, not profits. 

Since (as you note) Microsoft don't report Surface profits, you're not really in an informed position to make such aclaim. 

Besides which, what does "fine" even mean in this context?  Microsoft are committed to the line, and Microsoft have a healthy company wide profit margin, it doesn't even matter much if the Surface makes any profit, its existence is more of a vanity project.