Apple does hire a great PR team. imagine they announce the agreement with Chinese government over iPhone inspection after the 1Q report...
Apple Reports Record First Quarter Results
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Apple shareholders are an enormous cost-center. Perhaps the largest.
Why are shareholders considered a cost? Apple does not have to pay out dividends.
And yet, it does. I wonder why?
At the least, the shareholders hold the cash hostage. They are among the first to be paid out in event of a liquidation.
Perhaps a better question is, how are shareholders not a cost?
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I think that might be a very misleading way to think about it. Sure, maybe Apple could buy 12 nuclear carriers (Although I think inflation may have changed that number a bit. [Also, your $6.2 billion figure is apparently sourced from Fox News[1][2][3], which (of course) doesn't cite a direct source for that claim, only an author credit to Associated Press[4]]), but assuming they did, all they have is 12 huge hunks of…
To get recursive, don't forget to subtract the profit of sales of iPhone chargers now increasingly installed on modern military vessels.
What military vessels are iPhone chargers installed on?
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple laptop market share is Apple may sell more than any other single company in some markets, but their overall market dominance is mostly an illusion trumpeted by advocates.
You are mixing market share dominance with market dominance. Two very different concepts.
That's exactly the contrast I was drawing, yet to only talk about only one creates a cognitive distortion. One strong enough to confuse people into thinking that Apple dominates the laptop market when I think, but can't find the specific confirmation numbers, that Lenovo sells more laptops. That's one brand vs. Apple. Consider the wider market, and "market dominance" is a much a misnomer in the small as "market share domination" is in the large.
The parent here was asking why the laptops are so great, but they are actually a minor, albeit interesting, part of the market and market share. By market metrics, they aren't that that amazing. They are outsold by another single brand and fall into the "Other" category when looking at market share.
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All that is true, but it is also the biggest company in the world.
No, it's not. It's not even in the top ten.
On what metric? Market cap says they're top dog:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_...
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#296What are the results like corrected for inflation?
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No, it's not. It's not even in the top ten.
On what metric? Market cap says they're top dog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_public_corporations_by_...
Oh, fair enough. But I think that's a poor metric, since it's much more "virtual" than metrics that actually affect the economy, like turnover. I prefer Forbes average of four metrics: http://www.forbes.com/sites/liyanchen/2014/05/07/the-worlds-...
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The problem with the Monument Valley numbers is that they expected a hit game on iOS would magically translate in to a hit game on Android and that's really not the case. The two stores are completely separate, your popularity on either will not help you on the latter unless you're bringing a big marketing budget with you or have something truly unique and viral. There are plenty of popular Android games that have vi…
> expected a hit game on iOS would magically translate in to a hit game on Android and that's really not the case. Why not? Shouldn't a good game sell well on any platform? > The two stores are completely separate, your popularity on either will not help you on the latter unless you're bringing a big marketing budget with you or have something truly unique and viral. Perhaps it won't sell as well on Android in relati…
> that AR game that Google made
You mean ingress? They ported that to iOS a couple months ago
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#299I found the email of the contact info the the end of the report very annoying. >paxton1@apple.com >hoover1@apple.com Does Apple forcing everyone to use name only (prohibit use of dash and underscore? ) and keep addning number if the username is used?
There isn't a hard and fast rule.
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#300Truly phenomenal. But then when no one else is making decent laptops this is what happens. If anything the gap has grown thanks to Windows 8. I'm not a fan of Yosemite by any stretch, but it is very much the least bad of the available options. And on mobile, iOS is very clearly in for the long haul now. There was a time a couple of years ago when Android looked like it might gain enough momentum to sweep them away, b…
>it now looks like the iOS market share in developed markets is going to remain fairly solid.
It's called vendor lock-in.