Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Post by eropple » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 5:51 AM UTC

arrrg wrote: post #25

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iPad is much bigger than Mac ever was and it's had great developer support.

Well, I think it’s more complicated than that. What I do enjoy about the Mac are these small indie devs, selling their software at relatively high prices (read: $50 instead of $3). The Mac doesn’t have all the software, but it has some really cool, high-quality software that shares my values when it comes to design and UI. The App Store (to some extent even the App Store on the Mac) was never really like that and alw…

Post by ksec » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 6:01 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #72

Apple is holding onto $200 billion dollars in cash. I do like Bill Gate's whole "Let's be able to survive at least a year even if we have no revenue" but companies holding onto this much cash seems like a social ill (and a pretty good counterargument to the whole trickle-down effect)

Post by onlyfortoday » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 7:32 AM UTC

rtpg wrote: post #72

Apple is holding onto $200 billion dollars in cash. I do like Bill Gate's whole "Let's be able to survive at least a year even if we have no revenue" but companies holding onto this much cash seems like a social ill (and a pretty good counterargument to the whole trickle-down effect)

Post by Flenser » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 7:39 AM UTC

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It's actually pretty smart. They are allowing cannibalization of the iPad to the iPhone Plus because the margins on the iPhone Plus are higher, and people actually upgrade it every 2 years. I don't know a single person, including myself, that has had any impetus to upgrade their iPad, so this is a way of shifting people over to a phone model where there is a more defined upgrade cycle.

> I don't know a single person, including myself, that has had any impetus to upgrade their iPad Allow me to introduce myself :) I've had the iPad 2, iPad 3rd gen (Retina), and iPad Air, and I will absolutely be upgrading to the Air 2 as soon as it hits the Apple Store (by the way, what's up with them not announcing an in-store release date?). It has become arguably my primary non-work computer, as my 3 year old Wind…

Post by icelancer » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 7:50 AM UTC

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My dad still remembers (and complains about) when his stockbroker was calling him begging him to buy stock in the nearly bankrupt Apple saying it was a good opportunity. Even a tiny investment would've paid off easily even by the mid 2000s.

But most people would probably sell when they double or triple their money. You'd have to be insanely prophetic to hold on to the stock this whole time without taking profit.