Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results

Post by aaronbrethorst » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 5:48 AM UTC

andrewljohnson wrote: post #89

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #2

Down 5.8% (-18.70) in AH trading: http://www.google.com/finance?client=ig&q=AAPL edit: whew, and seeming to stabilize around a 4.5% drop still leaving it above $300. I was amazed it broke $300 so easily last week and was afraid it'd fall back below with this drop.

That was profit-taking. The sell-off wasn't because the news was bad.

Post by aaronbrethorst » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 5:49 AM UTC

danilocampos wrote: post #88

apike wrote: post #84

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It would be interesting to learn just how aggressively leadership must filter and otherwise confine these impulses to end up with the focus, profits and product mix we see today. A big key is that things don't ship unless Steve thinks they're great. There's lots of stuff that doesn't ship, and lots of stuff that isn't pursued. However, as a consequence, there's a lot of internal competition to get Steve's attention -…

Oh, too interesting. So because Steve holds the keys to the kingdom, incentives align in such a way that competition within Apple surrounds capturing his interest. Every system has an exploit – Apple's would then depend upon hacking Steve, or his circle, for maximum personal gain. Steve ends up being the filter for ambition that doesn't match Apple's long term agenda, while amplifying ambition that does. He's sitting…

Post by forensic » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 6:00 AM UTC

linuxhansl wrote: post #85

Not a single cent of my money. I stopped using Apple products when they started to lock down the iPods (by using encryption) and tied devices to a specific installation of iTunes. And do not even get me started on the closed platforms that are the iPhone or the iPad (i.e. the Apple Store). The amount good will this company has with consumers is staggering.

Post by andrewljohnson » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 6:08 AM UTC

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #91

andrewljohnson wrote: post #89

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That was profit-taking. The sell-off wasn't because the news was bad.

ah, you edited your post since i was about to reply (and HN crapped out on me). here was my original response: Finance-related articles: I read several. Margins are depressed[1]. iPad sales were lower than expected[2]. Revenue was above expectations, but profits were below [3]. [1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/19/technology/19apple.html [2] http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20101018-713881.html [3] http://blogs.b…

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Oct 19, 2010, 6:58 AM UTC

danilocampos wrote: post #77

apike wrote: post #70

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When you look at it closely, Apple, as a portfolio of talent, technologies and interacting businesses, resembles the sort of microorganism that Intelligent Design proponents advance as evidence of a god. Having been an Apple employee, it's funny to me when people describe Apple this way. If you think of their operations as perfect, godlike, or seamless, you have no chance of really understanding them or replicating t…

> Having been an Apple employee, it's funny to me when people describe Apple this way. If you think of their operations as perfect, godlike, or seamless, you have no chance of really understanding them or replicating the good parts yourself. A completely agree, so I think you may have missed my point. It's worth noting that I think Intelligent Design is horseshit, so god leaps neither from that argument nor from Appl…