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aemeijers

On 10/29/2011 9:40 PM, wrote:
z wrote:

On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 07:26:31 -0700 (PDT), "
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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. 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. IIRC Microsoft had to
bail them out (or something similar).

Quite unimportant!

IIRC, a big reason MS did that was to maintain the illusion of a
competitive market. Apple computers are great, albeit expensive, but
they will never be more than a niche player other than in tablets. Most
of their income comes from entertainment devices. Even the ipad (which
is way cool, and people are actually making good business apps for it,
at least in specialized areas) is mostly purchased as a kewel toy. I
want one, but not $500 worth.

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