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To: TruthWillWin
Profits are high because their products are overpriced.

Not possible. As an economist by education and training, I can assure you that what you claim is an oxymoron. They are selling every one of their products they can make.

A price is what is agreeable between a willing seller and a willing buyer. Apple was having trouble providing sufficient inventory to supply the numbers of willing buyers for its iPhone 6 and 6 plus at the price they were asking. . . and as of now, the delivery time on both models is measured in weeks from order time. If Apple's products were overpriced, they'd be piling up in the warehouses unsold like the products that Samsung is being left holding and cannot sell. . . and why Samsung is posting 65% lower profits for the last three quarters while Apple is posting record sales and record profits. . . and claiming 86% of the handset profits. . . ALL handset profits.

They are also claiming 53% of all Personal Computer profits. . . and that is also not because their computers are overpriced either. In fact, the number of Macs was increased by 18% this last quarter over the same quarter last year, as public demand for Apple's "high-priced" premium computers went UP, while the overall PC market went down 7%.

So, TruthWillWin, how can they be "over priced" if willing buyers in droves are plunking down their hard-earned money to buy them without complaint. . . and falling all over themselves to do so?

6 posted on 11/04/2014 10:52:26 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Their products are overpriced in terms of capability per dollar spent. Your so-called economics argument amounts to nothing more than an admission that there’s one “of you” born every minute.


12 posted on 11/04/2014 11:09:00 PM PST by FredZarguna (Schiit manufacturing: when it works, it works like Schiit.)
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To: Swordmaker

you are correct — they are not overpriced as the price is what many people (me excepting) are willing to pay.


46 posted on 11/05/2014 4:09:30 AM PST by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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