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Apple Posts 4Q 2008 Earnings Results
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Oh, really??
(From Amazon, now - 3 of the top 5 are netbooks (and the other 2 are Apple!))
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Geez, where is everybody?
I figured all the hard-core Apple-istas would be glued to this financial report thread. Only three pages so far?
I figured all the hard-core Apple-istas would be glued to this financial report thread. Only three pages so far? iPhone sales...
I can't stress enough the schadenfreude swelling up in me for the iPhone bashers who listed deal-breaker after deal-breaker of missing or improperly functioning features and predicted no one would buy such a loser of a product. Those Nobel Prize winning, armchair wizards of consumerism are always good for a laugh. Will we see these self-appointed marketing experts returning here to post their mea culpa for being so completely wrong in their assessments? Hell no they won't, of course. After they lick their wounds for a day or two they'll be back at it pontificating about how the iPhone needs this or that to succeed and how the android phones will kill the iPhone. Why not through in the headless, cheap, beige box Mac they insist is needed for Apple to survive too, just for good luck.
What a pack of losers!
I can't stress enough the schadenfreude swelling up in me for the iPhone bashers who listed deal-breaker after deal-breaker of missing or improperly functioning features and predicted no one would buy such a loser of a product. Those Nobel Prize winning, armchair wizards of consumerism are always good for a laugh. Will we see these self-appointed marketing experts returning here to post their mea culpa for being so completely wrong in their assessments? Hell no they won't, of course. After they lick their wounds for a day or two they'll be back at it pontificating about how the iPhone needs this or that to succeed and how the android phones will kill the iPhone. Why not through in the headless, cheap, beige box Mac they insist is needed for Apple to survive too, just for good luck.
What a pack of losers!
Well then let's compare total phones sold. As an example: Nokia sold over 115 million phones in Q1/2008, LG has sold over 27 million phones in Q2/2008 (LG's goal is 100 million in 2008). And LG isn't even in Job's revenue list.
No doubt Apple has some cool toys in the can that they can whip out as the market changes.
I can see Apple waiting until the next round of technologies (OLED screens, their ARM-based SoC designs, wireless USB, etc.) mature to introduce a new product category.
I think there is a certain degree of overlap. Apple is taking away _some_ customers from RIM right now, and it will get worse for RIM.
we are all still listening to the questions Steve is answering...
LG was fifth or sixth. After Sony-Erikson, in front of RIM, and all behind Nokia, Samsung and Apple in revenues in the September quarter.
"And $25 billion of cash safely in the bank with zero debt."
Is that typical of most corporations, or is that high? How many corporations have around this much socked away?
Is that typical of most corporations, or is that high? How many corporations have around this much socked away?
So...basically what you're saying is that YOU know how to run Apple better than Jobs does...do I understand that correctly?!
I can't stress enough the schadenfreude swelling up in me for the iPhone bashers who listed deal-breaker after deal-breaker of missing or improperly functioning features and predicted no one would buy such a loser of a product. Those Nobel Prize winning, armchair wizards of consumerism are always good for a laugh. Will we see these self-appointed marketing experts returning here to post their mea culpa for being so completely wrong in their assessments? Hell no they won't, of course. After they lick their wounds for a day or two they'll be back at it pontificating about how the iPhone needs this or that to succeed and how the android phones will kill the iPhone. Why not through in the headless, cheap, beige box Mac they insist is needed for Apple to survive too, just for good luck.
What a pack of losers!
It must get embarrassing to be wrong so regularly. I have no idea why they bother.
up 10.32% after hours
So what is this "after hours" thing anyway? Does it mean the mesh shirt guys went home and the real traders continued using automatic trading?It must get embarrassing to be wrong so regularly. I have no idea why they bother.
up 10.32% after hours
So...basically what you're saying is that YOU know how to run Apple better than Jobs does...do I understand that correctly?!
You don't know that I do ...
Yep, same here too. But that didn't mean a thing a week ago because this place was hopping the entire time. I was reading the Ars and Gizmodo feeds and hanging out in here. Thankfully it was a slow day in the office for the first time in months.
A good point was brought up about RIM's customer base being largely of the upgrade route and not necessarily new customers. I gotta agree with the caller's assertion that this only makes the iPhone's sales performance that much more impressive. I went through two 'Berries myself before defecting to an iPhone, FINALLY.
Watch that switch next quarter
I don't think so. RIM sells primarily to businesses and many have exhausted their budgets by the 4th quarter while Apple sells to consumers and xmas is coming!!