That's a pretty vague and unsupported statement. Apple has created tens of thousands of US jobs. How many are you expecting?
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Apple Reports Best Quarter Ever in Q1 2012: $13.06 Billion Profit on $46.33 Billion in Revenue
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That's a pretty vague and unsupported statement. Apple has created tens of thousands of US jobs. How many are you expecting?
Go back to school and study more history. This experiment has been tried. Entire countries tried to set prices to some fair value that the masses preferred, and ended up destroying their economies, causing food shortages and lowering life expectancies. No, I don't want to die or end up in a gulag for a 10% lower price on iPads this year.
With regards to your question about cursing some companies, it's because of negative externalities that those companies don't bear.
Ask all the manufactures that uses Foxconn (some PC & Android phone makers). So go and get a new fandroid saying!
Obama doesn't make any laws. What he says in the state of the union matters not one bit.
what a great day for apple! and just look at the stock price! great job apple! now please give us an iPad 3 soon, with quadcore, LTE, and retina display!
I got 20 share to sell at 475 tomorrow... assuming it will go that high.
Still got a goodly number of shares to play with, thankfully.
Still got a goodly number of shares to play with, thankfully.
Yes. Thank you. I'm well aware of how the government in the US works. However he's appealing to congress and the senate to put action plans together that he would sign.
To say what he says in the state of the union doesn't matter "not one bit" is a bit hyperbole.
It doesn't matter one bit. It's a campaign speech. It will cause precisely nothing to occur as a result of the speech. How much less could something matter?
Lets hear it - tell us something that will happen as a result of this waste of airwaves that wouldn't have happened otherwise. Besides this conversation. Should be easy for you to come up with something, right?
No. Because you want to take the thread off topic. And I would prefer not to. The subject was Apple's profits. My comment was about the State of the Union in direct relation to Apple. Now you want to take it off on some tangent. So no thanks.
Surely you have to realise that the President can influence Congress, right? What he says often acts as a catalyst for members of his party in Congress to act in a way that correlates to what he's said. That's pretty apparent.
But others are right to point out that his rhetoric regarding the economy very well might have an influence on the actions moving forward for companies like Apple.
After making all those "mistakes" Apple couldn't have posted better numbers as they sold everything as fast as they could make it...
Meanwhile Microsoft, RIM, Nokia and Google are telling their stockholders how good it's gonna be at the end of 2012 and making excuses for this quarter's bad numbers.
Imagine how this last group would have been pointing to a down economy for their failures if Apple wasn't defying the markets right were they were squatting.
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Some people just crack me up! Think whatever you want dude! LOL.
Meanwhile, I'll continue smiling like crazy. I bought 685 shares of AAPL at $80 a little before the iPhone came out. Life is pretty darn good right now!
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Some people just crack me up! Think whatever you want dude! LOL.
Meanwhile, I'll continue smiling like crazy. I bought 685 shares of AAPL at $80 a little before the iPhone came out. Life is pretty darn good right now!
For Apple it's just another day at the office. Good products, highly superior marketing, and big profit margins per hardware unit, all ad up to vibrant growth.
Here's a look back at Apple at $92 a share... and a rare interview with Steve Jobs after the iPhone announcement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mY4EIS82Jw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mY4EIS82Jw
Apple's products are a luxury item, not a necessity. No one is going hungry or living in the dark because people make discretionary purchases. Right now Apple is struggling to find workspace for their current hires, and soon will be employing a lot of other trades to build the new mothership HQ.
Just so you shut up about your little question: I prefer Apple charge the lowest price for their products that still prevents them from outselling their supply chain. Given the current state of backorder, Apple seems to have found that sweet spot of price.
I agree, and maximizing profits means not pricing your product so low that you cannot deliver what you sell.
Higher prices will hurt demand, and and could affect profits. That sweet spot where you are making as much money per item as you can...AND selling everything as fast as you make it, is a very difficult number to find. Apple seems to have a knack of finding that number better then most companies I know of.
The only reason to discount one's price is to buy market share. There's a time and place to do that. I think Android phone manufacturers know that Apple can do that and might do that if they could make enough phones to fill the increased demand. Apple has the scale of production to undercut all but Samsung if they wanted to risk being hit with unfair trade suits.
Smart phones may someday be the only phones one can buy, but even then people will be looking to upgrade to the newest and latest models, thus generating a continuous market. Apple has shown that by introducing new features on a regular basis, they can lure current customers to upgrade more often than necessary. But it takes a genius company to know the right time to release a new model or the right kinds of features to add.
Well everyone except my Mom and Dad. They still have trouble with their flip phone.
Ahh, so Siri has came along at the right time to help them use their new Apple phone to its full potential.
Never say never. Apple has just served notice to all its phone competitors that they cannot rely on Apple to be completely predictable. An unpredictable major competitor disrupts everyone's marketing schedules.
While I would like to see Apple continue to support the high end Mac market, it may not be a viable market to do so. Compared to laptop Macs, the desktop Macs are a much smaller segment of the Mac business. According to today's numbers, the Desktop Macs were only 28% of the total Mac sales in units. I would assume that the Mac Pro is a small percent of that number.
However, Apple has continued to produce the iPod Classic, so maybe a new MacPro is still gonna happen once Intel gets the next new chips out the door.
People seem to forget how many tens of thousands of employees Apple has in the U.S., just because Apple doesn't do final assembly in the U.S. doesn't mean that some component manufacturing and all of the administration is here.
One reason why profits are so high:
Apple products are produced under almost slave-labor conditions. Nets have to be hung underneath the windows of Fox-Conn workers, as their living conditions are so bad that so many of them killed themselves. And those were Chinese workers who were not used to anything close to US work conditions.
Also, Apple is a champion in exporting manufacturing jobs. About 700 000 jobs outside the US versus 50 000 inside.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/b...d-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all
Those of you who applaud the record profits should also know about the price it comes at: lost jobs in the US, and slave labor in China.
But there are enough fools who just applaud anything Apple does. Until they lose their job and cannot afford the new iPhone.
Because, even though produced by people who earn very, very little, sleep in dormitories, and have no human rights (at least not many more than in a gulag), the price for an iPhone is very high.
So, reckless behavior supported Apple's super success as much as the creation of great products.
But as long as Apple fans bend over for everything Apple does, Apple will not change its ways.
Obama, in today's speech to the state of the nation, has addressed the loss of manufacturing jobs through reckless corporations. But he also said that, as the Chinese won't take it any longer, and production costs are rising in China, production jobs are starting to come back. And that it is nonsense to say you can't manufacture in the US (high tech and cars proved Obama right).
So, I'd like to see a little bit more reflection here instead of the brainless adoration of quarterly results.
Apple products are produced under almost slave-labor conditions. Nets have to be hung underneath the windows of Fox-Conn workers, as their living conditions are so bad that so many of them killed themselves. And those were Chinese workers who were not used to anything close to US work conditions.
Also, Apple is a champion in exporting manufacturing jobs. About 700 000 jobs outside the US versus 50 000 inside.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/b...d-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=all
Those of you who applaud the record profits should also know about the price it comes at: lost jobs in the US, and slave labor in China.
But there are enough fools who just applaud anything Apple does. Until they lose their job and cannot afford the new iPhone.
Because, even though produced by people who earn very, very little, sleep in dormitories, and have no human rights (at least not many more than in a gulag), the price for an iPhone is very high.
So, reckless behavior supported Apple's super success as much as the creation of great products.
But as long as Apple fans bend over for everything Apple does, Apple will not change its ways.
Obama, in today's speech to the state of the nation, has addressed the loss of manufacturing jobs through reckless corporations. But he also said that, as the Chinese won't take it any longer, and production costs are rising in China, production jobs are starting to come back. And that it is nonsense to say you can't manufacture in the US (high tech and cars proved Obama right).
So, I'd like to see a little bit more reflection here instead of the brainless adoration of quarterly results.
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