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Apple Building Cash Reserves for 'Big, Bold' Moves
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I have ARM shares, they have been paying a dividend for years but they have lots of great ideas.
And lower priced Macbooks. Try to get them in everyone's home. Make the next Macbook a Core i3 notebook with OSX (not that iPhone/iPod OS), at a $699 or $799 price point.
They would gobble up a huge share of the market overnight. Even if they don't want to sustain that low price for more than 6 months or a year, they would have made inroads in so many households, where people would be more likely to get another Apple computer the next time around, as their memories would be one of a computer that gave them no headaches, viruses, or crashes.
the ideas are old. ARM started in the early 1980's. it's just that energy became expensive in the last 10 years and other technological advancements have enabled mobile devices where their CPU technology makes sense.
i wouldn't be surprised by a MS/Apple merger. the Microsoft part would be all the corporate/enterprise products and they would give the Apple part all the consumer products as well as online.
Microsoft has a huge data center infrastructure and they have been friendlier and friendlier in the last few years. Google is the real enemy
As others say, Sony are just too big even if Japanese law allowed it. However, you couldn't get much bigger or bolder if Apple did buy some quality PC hardware company with a view to selling PCs with OS X.
That should see the OS X user base growing massively. It won't happen of course because Apple make roughly a 30% profit margin on average per Mac sold, as opposed to the industry standard of about 10%. They'd never allow such a viable commodity to be undermined by cheaper PC hardware &, hence, why we'll probably never see OS X made available for any PCs.
You'd think Apple's mountain of cash would allow them to reduce the average price of Macs, or at least enable them with decent video cards. That's not to say I expect them to do either, as the interests of shareholders seem to come before those of customers by a long way.
As others say, Sony are just too big even if Japanese law allowed it. However, you couldn't get much bigger or bolder if Apple did buy some quality PC hardware company with a view to selling PCs with OS X.
It won't happen of course because Apple make roughly a 30% profit margin on average per Mac sold, as opposed to the industry standard of about 10%. They'd never allow such a viable commodity to be undermined by cheaper PC hardware &, hence, why we'll probably never see OS X made available for any PCs.
You'd think Apple's mountain of cash would allow them to reduce the average price of Macs, or at least enable them with decent video cards. That's not to say I expect them to do either, as the interests of shareholders seem to come before those of customers by a long way.
the prices are coming down as they sell more MAc's and the cost of production decreases per unit. MS has $30 or so billion in cash 10 years ago. i think they topped out at $50 billion before the huge dividend and they still raised their prices over the last decade. they also quadrupled their workforce
Obviously they would do it to make them better... I live in LA so Tmobile service is much better than I had with ATT or VZW... I imagine in Backwood alabama... it might not be that great... so sorry for you!
Big Moves
As one of the TOP performing companies of all time....... look for even bigger things in the next two years!!
As one of the TOP performing companies of all time....... look for even bigger things in the next two years!!
Mac prices may well be coming down in the US, but the average price of Macs here in the UK tends, mostly, to go up on average. I know some have been reduced, but others have definitely risen, for eg. iMacs & MacBook.
I know there's the argument about falling values in sterling causing this, but I don't see PC prices going up like those of Macs & these computers are after all mostly manufactured & imported from the same places. If I'm mistaken on that, I'll be glad for someone to correct me.
My take away from the Bloomberg article is a clear statement that flies in the face of many sniping comments posted to this website all the time.
This is not something that were ordaining from the top. This is something our customers are saying with their dollars, if you just look at the products that were selling, Jobs said. Theyre telling us what they think is important and were reflecting that.
Rocketman
This is not something that were ordaining from the top. This is something our customers are saying with their dollars, if you just look at the products that were selling, Jobs said. Theyre telling us what they think is important and were reflecting that.
Rocketman
Wouldn't surprise me if Apple bought Adobe. That'd be one way to kill Flash anyway
I thought the same thing.
even if that were true, the DOJ would put the brakes on it quicker than you could say monopoly.
not sure about Apple, but Dell had a huge presence in Ireland for years. even some of the US sales agreements to buy a Dell in the USA you had to agree to abide by the laws of Ireland in case of a dispute. a lot of multi-nationals are nothing more than a shell company and LLC's or subsidiaries owned by the shell company to funnel money for the greatest tax savings no matter where the item is produced. Microsoft makes you buy all their software through a subsidiary in Nevada even though they are based in Washington State.
in the USA most fortune 500 companies are all headquartered in one office building in Delaware even if no one works there
The bad guys are targeting vulnerabilities in OpenOffice.org. The Mac user base isn't much different.
We're almost at the point where the big nail argument is proven to be invalid once and for all.
UNIX is a fundamentally safe OS that uses design principles that offer natural protection for viruses.
I don't think we're going to see as many exploits on the Mac, period.
That's not to say we'll see none, but there will never be as many.
I agree. But that's a pretty limited usage scenario if you could only practically use it when it's docked -- if you're sitting at your desk with your dock, isn't your webcam right there too? Otherwise you'd be looking for props to hold it steady, and I just don't see Apple touting that as part of the user experience. "All you need is to make yourself a little stack of books, like so, no, maybe a bit higher, there, and put your iPad down, and balance it like this, whoops, it slipped, there we are, now we can video conference! So easy!"
Apple could just buy AT&T. Fixes everything themselves.
Actually, I think (out of my a$$) that Apple is going to buy Google. One company's mission is to "Organize the world's information" while Apple's mission is becoming "Presenting the world's information" or "Making the world's information usable."
They will call the new venture, Goople.
Actually, I think (out of my a$$) that Apple is going to buy Google. One company's mission is to "Organize the world's information" while Apple's mission is becoming "Presenting the world's information" or "Making the world's information usable."
They will call the new venture, Goople.