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Apple's Share of Profits Among Top Mobile Phone Vendors Hits 75%
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Because that would have required forward thinking and a healthy fear of stagnation.
What equivalent models from other vendors cost less?
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In a share chart, someone is losing share. Apple share of the profits went up as the market grew. Explain for us what is misleading notion.
Of course anything even remotely negative to Apple is overlooked and disregarded. Then it's "Look what everyone else is doing", so that makes it ok.
What companies are red and purple in the graph?
Also, what company is the little green that pops up above Nokia in Q2/2010?
EDIT: After reading the article again, they are: LG, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson. However, it doesn't specify which color is which company.
Also, what company is the little green that pops up above Nokia in Q2/2010?
EDIT: After reading the article again, they are: LG, Motorola, and Sony Ericsson. However, it doesn't specify which color is which company.
Is share really a relevant thing to even graph in the first place?
Certainly in saturated markets but we aren't talking about that situation by any measure.
So it's the wrong graph it's conclusions are meaningless.
And all Apple set out for was 1% of the phone market !
Now it looks like RIM is going to tank, Nokia will get bought out by Microsoft and Sony Ericsson will get diluted into the PlayStation/PSP brand...
Now it looks like RIM is going to tank, Nokia will get bought out by Microsoft and Sony Ericsson will get diluted into the PlayStation/PSP brand...
More to the point, Nokia had a killer OS (MeeGo) waiting in the wings but were far to cautious in getting it out there. If they'd thrown it out there sooner, got a bit of an ecosystem around it, even if it was rough and ready for a year or more and hurt sales in the short term it wouldn't have been the disaster of jumping into bed with MS's failing mobile OS.
Nokia fans were loyal as heck and convinced Nokia was the 'Rolls Royce' option. Amazing how they threw this away.
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I do also think that while all electronics firms exploit cheap labour to churn out their landfill in waiting, Apple's HUGE profit margins could be used to shift production back to the west. It would make a huge statement.
I remember back in the dot com boom I had some shares in ARM. At the time it was being lauded as the kind of new high-tech information company that would drive the UK economy. At that time the company employed around 50 people! 50 people. All the 1000s of manufacturing jobs were at third party partners in the far east not in the UK. The idea you can build a whole nation's economy on 'information' or 'innovation' is ridiculous if the meat-and-potatoes work happens overseas.
overpriced?
So, does this just prove that Apple overcharges for its wares, or that they are such an efficient manufacturer that they maximize profits by forcing production costs down better than everyone else?
So, does this just prove that Apple overcharges for its wares, or that they are such an efficient manufacturer that they maximize profits by forcing production costs down better than everyone else?
No, it proves that they decided to charge what the market will bear, and it's working.
Any and all Apple gear I've purchased since 2006 has been worth every cent, and then some.
When consumers see a good value proposition, they'll pay more, which is why Apple is able to shrug off a recession like it never happened.
And yes, Apple is extremely efficient. They are a case study in how business should be run. Look up the details. And Apple's also had Tim Cook for years. That alone is a major factor.
How is it possible for Apple to overcharge? Given that every customer is free to not buy, or to just buy some other product, if they feel Apple's prices are 1 penny too high for them?
Why would you pay 1 penny more that you think any product is worth to you? Just keep the money in your pocket and walk away!
Or buy it if it's more valuable to you than what Apple charges (in which case they can't be overcharging you, since you've already decided it's worth more to you than the same cash in your pocket). Same with every Apple customer.
Nice
Apple posts record profits while overworked Foxconn employees kill themselves & protest from rooftops.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398713,00.asp
Mass suicides might be a small sign that "You're Doing IT Wrong!"
(Be it the Xbox suicides or iPhone suicides.)
Exploding iPad factories - also a sign of trouble:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385804,00.asp
Foxconn - things need fixing there - Apple and Microsoft have to take responsibility for how their products are made - and insist on better working conditions for Foxconn employees - Gasp! even if it means raising the price per unit by $5 each - workers need time off, basic health and dental care, and reasonable breaks for having a good lunch and using the restroom!
Apple posts record profits while overworked Foxconn employees kill themselves & protest from rooftops.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2398713,00.asp
Mass suicides might be a small sign that "You're Doing IT Wrong!"
(Be it the Xbox suicides or iPhone suicides.)
Exploding iPad factories - also a sign of trouble:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385804,00.asp
Foxconn - things need fixing there - Apple and Microsoft have to take responsibility for how their products are made - and insist on better working conditions for Foxconn employees - Gasp! even if it means raising the price per unit by $5 each - workers need time off, basic health and dental care, and reasonable breaks for having a good lunch and using the restroom!
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So, Apples margins are so tight the there's just no way they could afford the 15-20% hike in cost of assembling the devices in the US.
The last excuse falls apart.
Who knew exploitation & indentured servitude was so profitable?
The last excuse falls apart.
Who knew exploitation & indentured servitude was so profitable?
Correct me if i am wrong, but the phone didn't sell well at all at the price level Ballmer mocked.
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Figures are relative, hence that conclusion cannot be made. From what i can remember, Samsung reported record figures last quarter.
You're correct. It only took two months before sales slacked off and Apple dropped the price by 1/3 from $600 to $400, prompting a most memorable outcry from early buyers:
I still remember Apple's moderators busily deleting literally thousands of angry posts on their official support forums, until later that day when they finally caved in to the enormous public pressure and let them stay.
Btw, to those here who talk about new Android phones coming out all the time, Steve Jobs had something to say about that when confronted with the reaction to his price drop:
How soon people forget.
Apparently though, Jobs took it to heart, and drastically slowed the arrival of new iPhone models after that episode. (Until then, ATT had been talking up how many new iPhone models would "soon" be appearing.)
Let's not forget that Nokia and Motorola used to be the kings of the mobile market. It'll be interesting to see if the iPhone 5 pushes things forward much more than the 4gs.
