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Apple Reports Record 1Q 2011: $6 Billion Profit on $26.74 Billion in Revenue
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yes, but if you have to have DICOM compliance and 12bit grey scale (trained radiologists can see over 8 bits of grey, and that may be the difference between 'not seeing', 'not sure' and 'certainty' in a diagnosis), and FDA GMP compliance you're gonna pay a bit more.
24" 1080P monitors are $199 retail now. Drop most of the 'stuff' that a monitor product needs (speakers, cables, controls, power brick), drop the need for standalone profit, shrink the size/weight to 10" and less than a pound (The price of most commodity products is primarily driven by weight of the component), and I don't see why a screen can't be $100.
Apple should buy ARM. This would let Apple have a clear lead in mobile computing. ARM will replace X86 in majority of devices within 3-4 years.
Finally the world would come to sense. 1) Unix is mainstream. (Ios/OSX) 2) PowerPC (ARM). Both technologies declared dead a decade ago.
Let's hope a good chunk of this goes to innovation.
What in Apple's history makes you think otherwise?
also, if apple bought ARM, couldn't they like not sell it to Motorola and samsung and other competitors
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I love this quote, when talking about current Android-based tablets, the best:"Instead you have a scaled-up smartphone, which is a bizarre product in our view." What the hell does he think the iPad is running? An iPhone's OS. It's a scaled-up iPhone.
Actually, Apple is a company known to spend comparatively very little on R & D.
m.gizmodo.com/5486798/research-and-development-apple-vs-microsoft-vs-sony
Actually, Apple is a company known to spend comparatively very little on R & D.
m.gizmodo.com/5486798/research-and-development-apple-vs-microsoft-vs-sony
So where do you hail from, my fine Mike Muir fan? The UK, Australia, Scotland, Ireland?
I'm blown away every time I think of how well Apple is doing. It seems like they should be dominating the computer market with such success, yet PC is still vastly more prevalent. I often wonder what would happen if Apple dropped their prices to below that of all the PC competition for a few years, just to remove that reasoning for consumers. You'd think it could sway the percents closer to even over a little time.
What would our world be like if the market share of Apple and PC were reversed?
What would our world be like if the market share of Apple and PC were reversed?
you obviously have no idea what you are talking about.
let me know when you find a product as with equal hardware to any of those, and a better price tag
Actually Steve had said that iOS was originally being developed for a tablet and he got the idea to try it on a phone. So the iPhone is scaled down iPad.
Probably a lot of Apple engineers.
The local Porsche dealerships are probably rubbing their hands with joy.
Apple not worried about Tablets at CES
Of Course Apple isn't worried about anything announced at CES...it's all crap. The iPad isn't perfect but it's a much better product than anything that exists now or that has been announced. CES was a total joke; I think I'll just wait for an Apple media event if I want to see some real innovation.
Of Course Apple isn't worried about anything announced at CES...it's all crap. The iPad isn't perfect but it's a much better product than anything that exists now or that has been announced. CES was a total joke; I think I'll just wait for an Apple media event if I want to see some real innovation.
Tech analysts' consensus says it's possible. The question is "at what price tag?". There's confidence that Apple can manage to keep the current pricing of iPad, sacrificing some margin but slaughtering the competition.
Check those numbers. iPod consensus was 17.7 mil., not 20.3 mil.. Mac consensus was 4.25 v. 4.13 realized.
Nice to see apple grow so well. Not so good when we help build china's economy while ours is in the dumpster. I know, all the computing companies are doing this. Pretty soon folks won't be buying this stuff because they can't afford it. Good job apple. Getting rich off of slave labor!
And I believe that this is what will happen. I know Apple doesn't do things just because others do, Steve has said they make products he likes and he hopes we do too.
But the wanna be competitors have been 'teasing the tiger' when they advertise their vaporware and junk. I think they have really pissed Steve off.
TheY didn't just have one version of iPad 1 when the were testing, but several. I believe that several versions iPad 2 were planned even before 1 was released, and the one that is being released as version 2, is gonna send the compition running home, crying for their mommie. It's a chess match right now, and I would love to be in the trenches, playing the game (on Apples team, of course), but I am but a lowly spectator, waiting patiently in the stands.
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