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To: Swordmaker
iOS v Android Internet usage in 101 countries around the world. . . iOS dominates in rich countries, Android in poor countries.

Apple doesn't make much money off Internet usage - it makes most of it off selling Idevices. Unfortunately, Apple's market share is shrinking, and its year-to-year quarterly earnings comparisons (total earnings, not EPS, which has been goosed by share buybacks) have been negative for 5 straight quarters. After the plateau comes the whoosh down, as all portable touch screen devices deal with industry-wide price compression by either cutting prices or remaining above the fray and losing significant unit volumes. Either way, bottom line profits get taken to the woodshed.

7 posted on 03/27/2014 3:50:36 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Not to worry. . . Apple is taking home 87% of all phone profits.


11 posted on 03/27/2014 4:41:08 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Zhang Fei

Pray tell, where can we see your past predictions of Apple’s, as of then, unrealized success?


24 posted on 03/27/2014 3:40:20 PM PDT by papertyger (if disdain of homosexual behavior is "bigotry," is it any wonder hostility to Islam is "racism?")
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