On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:40:32 -0400, wrote:

" wrote:

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:26:31 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Oct 28, 11:58*pm, wrote:
" wrote:
On Oct 27, 10:34 pm, wrote:

The profits have nothing to do with it except in the generalized sense
that profits are generally part of revenue and the revenue generally
represents inward cash and of course if you can't make a profit
eventually you'll go out of business.

Profits have everything to do with it. You don't even think they
make a profit on Macs? How clueless are you?

Of course they do. A Mac is no more than a PC in a white plastic case at 2x
the price. PC companies make profits at half the retail. Why wouldn't APPL?

I don't know.

....and there you have it.


It was a rhetorical question which Trader4F conveniently
snipped. The reason I asked was that at one stage Apple wasn't making
a profit and were slowly going down the toilet.

Long ago in a galaxy far, far, away. ...long before they were just another
PC.

IIRC Microsoft had to bail them out (or something similar).

Quite unimportant!

To current events? Certainly is.