Yeah. I know.
Well, you were warned about downside of taking the red pill weren't you?
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Apple Reports Record $3.38 Billion Profit for Q1 2010 on Highest Revenue in History
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Yeah. I know.
Well, you were warned about downside of taking the red pill weren't you?
I work in IT, and I partly agree that Apple isn't an IT firm. But they seem to be interested in dealing with my IT group directly from their Apple business group from a nearby store on providing solutions rather than just selling hardware and software. We use some Macs in place of traditional PCs for our users as well as a few of our IT staff. Perhaps my IT organization is just unique. We use Linux, Windows, Solaris, and Macs for our servers.
I remember in the mid 90's when I worked in IT at a fortune 500 company how we laughed at Microsoft getting into the server side with Windows NT. Then slowly it got in the door.
I wonder when I became aware of the horrible truth of this reality. I suspect it was when I became an officer in my MUG.
Methinks he should spend more time with the Windows user base for a horrifying reality check (Hint: 99% of them don't know enough about technology to make a single coherent sentence on a forum like this).
Though one would think he could get a good enough taste of the Windows user base right here on this forum, as enough of them hang out here to "stir the pot."
Though one would think he could get a good enough taste of the Windows user base right here on this forum, as enough of them hang out here to "stir the pot."
It's not much of a surprise that there's plenty of Windows users on here.
Methinks he should spend more time with the Windows user base for a horrifying reality check (Hint: 99% of them don't know enough about technology to make a single coherent sentence on a forum like this).
Though one would think he could get a good enough taste of the Windows user base right here on this forum, as enough of them hang out here to "stir the pot."
Wow...
you really take the cake in your smug, condescending, sanctimonious, hypocritical attitude. So anyone who prefers Windows to OSX is automatically part of that "99% (ignoramus, if you will)" who knows nothing about technology to string together a single coherent sentence?Does your god-like complex know no bounds? If OSX is so perfect, why do you guys run Bootcamp? Why do you guys use a specialized form of Microsoft Office?
If only the people that build those nice products would also benefit a bit more from those figures, but i guess that will never happen, low cost countries are what make these profits possible, why not settle for a little less profit and make the workers benefit from the succes too, oh well.
Dude, this is Apple's holiday quarter, in case you missed it the fist time I said it. The next quarter will be around 12B revenue and 2B profit, FAR AWAY from anything MS will report in 3 months. MS will make about twice as much money with a bit more revenue.
Netbooks? MS sells a copy of Windows with those, too. Probably a bit discounted compared to a desktop Windows, but now it's Windows 7 Starter and not XP anymore. so I don't really see your point. PC sales will pick up massively in the next 12 months, and so will sales of Windows. Not that I like that fact, but it remains the truth.
Talking about the tablet, no one knows whether it's gonna be a major success. Surging PC sales, on the other hand, are more or less set in stone...
Apple's fiscal year 2010 runs from September 27, 2009 to September 25, 2010.
Obviously you are sore about your systems, most of us are having ZERO issues with our Macs so we do not feel the same. If we were in the same boat, we would join you in the outcry, but we are not.
Most shocking thing for me to come out of that conference call is Steve Jobs actual hyping a product that hasn't been released yet. Usually he's the first one to try to put a lid until announcement.
Time to use your Apple Care. Though I'm not sure what the fix would be for "unfounded assumptions."
time for $799 macbook and graphic card in iMac
hope with all these money the bring SSD to MB and MBP (mass market) ...
hope with all these money the bring SSD to MB and MBP (mass market) ...
*ahem* A drone (since iPods take a majority of the market) walks in, asks for a MP3 player, gets directed to the iPod display case first, gets the "privilege" of downloading the bloated, memory-hogging iTunes and now has the option to be suckered into paying for movies, TV shows, apps to one company directly, and oh, yeah... in a month, "can you find a fix because my Snow Leopard has totally deleted my hard drive?".
Serious defects like what? How can you say "every apple machine has ridiculous problems"?? I don't get it. If you have a problem, take it back and get another one until you don't have problems.
It's not much of a surprise that there's plenty of Windows users on here.
And many of us Mac users who also use Windows (me included) happen to like Apple stuff. Then there's the noisy little group here that doesn't...
Ideal situation. The best product clearly won out in this case. Who doesn't love iPods??
Sometimes we get lucky this way.
You and LTD are priceless. Is this a contest for most ridiculous (anti)fanboi post ?
I think any IT dept that uses Mac servers is definitely unique. For the past 10 years the only place I've seen Mac servers are schools/colleges. The rest of the world runs on Windows, Linux, or Unix servers (or even mainframes). A lot of the business world's "server" requirements are about what software apps actually run on the servers...Seibel and Oracle business apps (among dozens of others) do not run on Macs...they run on Windows or Unix or Linux....which in turn run on hardware that is "supported" by the OS as well as the software vendor. So it really comes down to what the "server" is going to be for...gone are the days of just print servers or file servers...it's so much about server/client.
Not picking on Apple...they just have a super small pie slice of the server market.
I'm with you there.
But I don't see the reason why if you like Apple stuff, some people deem you as some kind a traitor if you don't also hate Windows stuff.