Meanwhile Meester Balmer's Zune is going nowhere fast. I can see it now...the ZPhone any day now and you can talk to your XBox with it.
Yah for a company who's yearly profits topped 50 BILLION. Yah. Nowhere fast.
Meanwhile Meester Balmer's Zune is going nowhere fast. I can see it now...the ZPhone any day now and you can talk to your XBox with it.
You are a tree falling in the forest....
I don't think it's good that the stock moves so quickly up and down. That magnitude of value should not be subject to the vagaries of numbers that are fundamentally unimportant.
A prescient comment on the phone call was that Apple views the iPhone business in terms of years, not months. And here we are with not days but hours of sales swinging the value of a company by 10 billion dollars.
One of the drawbacks of Apple's success this past year is the deleterious hyper-vigilance of a public that has become too aware of it. When no one cared, Apple could make mistakes without fear of a 10 billion dollar spanking, and therefore flourish. Hills and valleys didn't matter; vision and talent did.
You have to wonder if Apple can continue to be Apple with this many people watching it, this much money moving on less than a burp, and this many people reading this thread. I wonder if Apple and can be Apple with so many people cheering or mewing when the stock goes up or down by 5 points.
If AAPL went down 50 points tomorrow, that would be good. it would remove the poisonous "Mad Money" sports-like pulse-taking every time someone flushes the toilet in Cupertino.
If you zoom out and get a sense of the fundamental transformation of our society from industry to information, and identify those companies that are best positioned to drive it, you can make a lot of money. But not by examining 30 hours, 30 days, or 30 weeks.
This is all silliness. Anyone who is interested in AAPL should buy a Mac and an iPhone. If you like them, invest for 10 years. If you don't, go away. But if you do choose to stay, please don't confuse the most momentous transformation in the history of our species with a basketball game.
Well actually if you consider store hours it is over 4 per second.
Yah for a company who's yearly profits topped 50 BILLION. Yah. Nowhere fast.![]()
Yah for a company who's yearly profits topped 50 BILLION. Yah. Nowhere fast.I'd love to see Apple try for 50 billion in a year's time.
Sounds like the original 1% or 2% had activation issues, is probably closer to 38% had activation issues given their 176,000 only activated.
Yah for a company who's yearly profits topped 50 BILLION. Yah. Nowhere fast.I'd love to see Apple try for 50 billion in a year's time.
"That thing is the most expensive phone out there! $599 for a phone?? It wont even sell enough to break even!!"- Steve Ballmer
I really love Ballmer's depth of analisys... Real GENIUS...![]()
Well it is a guess factoring in the AT&T stores that had shorter hours (AT&T outnumber Apple stores 10 to 1).what about in places like New York that are open 24/7
I believe he said "...Balmer's Zune is going nowhere fast."
No, Microsoft has just above $50bn _revenue_. Apple has about $22bn.
Please look at Apple's summary datasheet.
Please look at Apple's summary datasheet.
They sold 270,000 of "iPhone and Related Products and Services (6)", where footnote 6 reads:
"(6) Consists of iPhones and Apple-branded and third-party iPhone accessories."
Result: Probably not inconsistent with AT&T's number of activations.
50 billion in which currency? In US dollars, their annual profit is about 14 billion. It is not small by any means, but I think you need to chill out a bit more.Yah for a company who's yearly profits topped 50 BILLION. Yah. Nowhere fast.I'd love to see Apple try for 50 billion in a year's time.
while an exageration he does have a point. $500-$600 is WELL outside the spending range for most average people. If this was a laptop sure. Buts its a damn phone at the end of the day.
That's amazing... just wish I owned stock
Too late to get in the game you suppose?
The problem with Zune is that its impossible to share music thru their wifi connection if you are the only one that owns one.
They also said that most of the 5 million they are counting was from accessories - meaning that they are counting it over 24 months, apparently in 'days' - so that is only probably 2 days out of 730...
I think it's a pile of Zand in the desert!What the heck is a Zune?