They're employed out of their own free will and participate in their employer's success. Why would they be the victims? That is not what I was alluding to.
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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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They're employed out of their own free will and participate in their employer's success. Why would they be the victims? That is not what I was alluding to.
Yep, I will be happy if it settles in around $435 tomorrow, with the new floor being in the $410-$420 range. Remember it was down around $360 not that long ago.
Customers of those $500+ iDevices are just not buying enough 99 cent apps. And I doubt they will, so you will have to stay unhappy.
US numbers are not astonishing but bizarre: Unit sales for Macs down 6 percent, revenue up 84 percent? Can anyone explain that?
He's just saying the same thing you are. The facts are concrete. It's been studied. Just because he doesnt think it went up "in proportion to" what it should have doesn't mean jack. Apple is the most highly valued company in the world! How can you people complain about it not moving up when it was at nearly $320 in August 2011 and now it's at $450. Do you think this is an unlimited ATM or something? Stocks don't just go up unless the company surprises everyone. With Apple, EVERYONE already knows they blow you out every quarter. So just beating earnings, which EVERYONE already expects, doesn't make anyone go out and buy.
Tell me something - did YOU go out and buy more stock because earnings were so great today? No? Well then what makes you think everyone else should have if you didn't?
MS IS DEAD. AND SO IS GOOGLE. AND SAMSUNG.
Another astounding performance by Apple; SJ must be happy wherever he is
Not when it was at $427 just yesterday.
But yes to steady march upward please. I'm hoping Steve Jobs (rest his soul) will be paying off my mortgage someday.
Okay, now tell me again why they need all that money and can't pay a dividend. What do you even "buy" that costs many billions of dollars? Let's conservatively estimate that Apple is going to bring in another $25 billion in profit over the next three quarters (with iPhone 5 being a 1Q2013 launch). What $10+ billion company would buy that wouldn't look like a piece of cr@p compared to your own 44% margin business?
Where is the cash dividend? Dividend tax is only 15% right now. Get that cash out of the company and into the hands of your shareholders!
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Here's the typical 27 " iMac Core i5
It's $1699 stock.
If you take out the display and casing and put that same hardware with the exception of a desktop graphics card in a re-designed desktop Apple could sell a $1799 Desktop with ease. It would also more than likely increase sales of Apple displays.
The R&D is already there imho. Apple has probably been researching different desktops for quit a while now.
The only reason they won't sell a $1799 desktop is because it would cut into the iMac sales.
Here's the typical 27 " iMac Core i5
It's $1699 stock.
If you take out the display and casing and put that same hardware with the exception of a desktop graphics card in a re-designed desktop Apple could sell a $1799 Desktop with ease. It would also more than likely increase sales of Apple displays.
The R&D is already there imho. Apple has probably been researching different desktops for quit a while now.
The only reason they won't sell a $1799 desktop is because it would cut into the iMac sales.
Yes, Rodimus. In your world, Apple can only do bad and all the good things are due to market forces.
Twisting words again. I stated a fact.
in your words Apple can only do good and market forces do not matter.
The growth as to be taken in context. Seems great but Apple is not the only one getting insane growth in their smart phone market.
Apple is doomed. The choice of fragmented devices with carrier installed crapware will surely kill the iPhone.
Nah, that can't be right. How could a stangant stock go up $70 in a few months. You must be wrong. Listen to all the experts here who say it's stagnant after all.
Re: the iPhone product mix:
Which is the postpay market versus the prepay market? Why would there be a difference?
Which is the postpay market versus the prepay market? Why would there be a difference?
Apple's strongest Mac sales quarter is Q4, where more students/college kids buy macs before school starts, hence the -6% sequential quarterly decline.
Their year-over-year mac sales went up 19%.
Why would they do that? As long as they're making a good net profit on it, they should continue selling it.
Haha i need to work on my sarcasm. It was a tongue in cheek post to the android fans who suggest that a company who has zero problem selling their product should lower the price because "it's sooo overpriced"
Yes, and it was at $400 in summer 2011, back down to $320 in August, then up to $420 in October, then $360 in December...Apple has hardly been on a non-stop climb.
My issue is this: Apple is the hottest company in the world right now, and its P/E sits at 15.2. And it has $100 billion in cash. So factor that into the equation.
Amazon's is 98.4. The slowly-dying Netflix is at 21.04.
Apple is a high-market-value company. But it's still undervalued.
Try telling that to those looking for an update to Final Cut Pro, or those who want to buy XServe.
The iPhone has grown faster than the market every year since it was introduced. That is what increasing market share means.
"iPhone represented 124% year-over-year growth vs 40% growth for industry according to IDC."
And yet there are people proclaiming that the Apple iPhone 4S will fail because it does not have a larger screen, 4G LTE, NFC, has only a 800MHz processor, needs more RAM, etc., etc.
Tim Cook: "iCloud is not just a product. It is a strategy for the next decade."
Steve's wife is sitting with the first lady during the state of the union speech tonight.
Steve's wife is sitting with the first lady during the state of the union speech tonight.