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sflocal said:

sog35 said:

agree.

I'm happy he's gone.

But still Tim Cook got totally played by Ichan. He convinced Apple to do the buyback. Apple bought back $115 billion in shares and it did NOTHING to help its valuation. Ichan sells his shares for hundreds of millions in profits. Apple is stuck with $115 billion less in cash and $60 billion in debt.

Personally I'm sick of this mismanagement in capital by Tim Cook.

For wasting $115 billion alone he needs to be fired.

Just.Be.Quiet.

sog35 said:

icoco3 said:

Ferrari does not sell $30,000 cars nor license themselves to a company that would.

Since Apple has most of the profits anyway, and they could have more by following your suggestion, but they control the end to end experiance and that would be lost if the licensed iOS to others.

Not gonna happen

I would not compare Apple to Ferrari.

i would compare to Apple to BMW or Mercedes. 

Mercedes does sell its engines to other companies like Nissan. BMW/Merc also sells their chassis platform to other companies also. These phones won't be branded as iPhones or Apple phones. But iOS powered phones. Just as Nissan cars with Merc engines are not called Merc cars.

Yes hardware profits in the sub $400 range is limited. But services on those platforms is a HUGE opportunity.

A company like Sony, LG, ect would get a huge boost in profits selling iOS licensed phones. Not Apple level profits but nice profits because they would be selling a differentiating product compared to the thousands of Android models. They will basically be the exclusive seller of sub $350 iOS devices.

Keep in mind besides Apple there still is about $6 billion in profits in the phone business. That is still huge.  Sony, LG, ect would love to get a bigger piece of that pie and selling an iOS device would do that.

gatorguy said:

Google's walled garden.