rogifan_old

cnocbui said:

rogifan_old said:

See there you awe with the snark. Why?

Because I find the price to be ridiculous and therefore fair game for ridicule.

I've never understood why people feel the need to ridicule how other people spend their money.

sog35 said:

jimdreamworx said:

This is why Apple Pay has to succeed to the point of being used regularly by millions.  That is the only way to bring its P/E to that of any other company that pushes things that are purchased on a far more regular basis than a new phone or app at an online store.

Apple needs to change their accounting method for iPhone sales.

They should split the revenue between hardware and software. That way each iPhone would have $400 in hardware revenue and $250 in software revenue. Then spread the $250 in software revenue over 2 years.  If Apple did this their 2015 revenue would look like this:

Hardware revenue - $140 billion
Software and Services - $90 billion
Other revenue - $5 billion

If Apple wants to be treated like a hardware/software company they need to report like one.

Sounds like financial engineering to me. Wall Street knows Apple isn't just a hardware company. Messing with the financials isn't going to get them to stop treating Apple like one if that's what they're choosing to do. I do think Apple should stop reporting sales figures and just report on install base. Reporting iPhone sales figures does nothing but provide a big fat target and Apple can't win. If they don't beat the target they're doomed and if they do they're still doomed because it creates difficult "comps". Stop reporting sales figures.

Also as I've said before I think Apple needs to hire someone top notch at the SVP level to run their cloud business. Eddy Cue isn't cutting it and has his plate full with iTunes, Music, TV and Pay.  This would show people Apple is serious about the cloud machine learning/AI and would allow Eddy to focus exclusively on Apple's content business which have a lot of potential but also need a lot of work.

cnocbui said:

rogifan_old said:

Can someone explain all the hate around this product? It's not like thousands or even hundreds of Apple engineers were pulled off of other projects to work on this. I don't see why it's so distasteful to some.

The Watch per se or the €3 worth of leather used to triple the price?

See there you awe with the snark. Why?

Can someone explain all the hate around this product? It's not like thousands or even hundreds of Apple engineers were pulled off of other projects to work on this. I don't see why it's so distasteful to some.

The pope is Liberal and so is Tim Cook so I'm sure it was a good meeting. Probably discussed global warming.