Posted on 04/16/2015 10:39:55 PM PDT by Up Yours Marxists
You missed some posts that refer to you because you’re too blind to see.
That’s fine.
Don’t you ever learn? You’ve had that same obscene graphic pulled by the Admin Moderators pulled before. . . and here you are posting it again? Are you truly that stupid? Thy is is a family friendly forum and you are again posting porn?
No, I did not. You are delusional.
Keep looking. The day you see it, is the day there is hope for a cure. :-)
You mean those dividend checks I've been getting all these years are not real?
IBM is not only "not failed" but is one of the largest and most successful companies on the planet at this time.
I see you have other currently operating companies on your "failed" list as well.
Maybe you need to put down the bong and pick up a Wall Street Journal.
Planning on riding a ship to the ocean's bottom?
200 Meters is the standard water resistant rating for watches that you can dive or snorkel with without having to worry about them leaking.
I have a couple of Citizen Eco-Drives that have the 200M rating, titanium, run on light power, never need to be wound, account for leap years, etc.
I live in Florida so I need a watch that I don’t have to worry about getting wet, the Citizen costs about $300-400.
The Apple watch starting at about $500 isn’t cheap, so wearing it in the water at the beach or pool even isn’t advisable.
You apparently know nothing about technology failures. Rewind to 1970 and tell me just how “great” IBM is now.
That’s a nice list of crap you have there. Apple is phone only company now. Diverse companies survive. One trick ponies FAIL.
Without the phone Apple would be a little engine that could. Have you learned NOTHING from history????
Where have you been????
IPads continue to drop sales like a brick. IPods are on life support. Mac pro’s are still stuck in the niche 10% margin and continue to lose ground.
You need to look around and jump out of the cult moonbat culture there son.
As an Economist and an ex-CEO, I've obviously learned a lot more than you have about history. I've run businesses. I've owned businesses. I still own two businesses. I advise businesses. Have you run even run a lemonade stand? Your grasp of business history seems tenuous at best.
You are the cretinous "business historian" who claimed that IBM and PG&E were "huge failures" (!) as examples for us to look in order to see Apple's future fate. RIGHT! IBM is now #20 on the Fortune 500 and PG&E near a lifetime high in market cap? Right! Sure you know history! Ignorant, anti-Apple hating, factually bankrupt, ignorant hysteria is more like it.
You're one who, like Chicken Little, keeps crying, "The sky is falling!” with your flawed assumptions, your singular dearth of factual evidence, and your refusal to recognize reality even when it is shoved in your face like a cream pie!
Up yours is claiming I've never learned any thing about history and dismissing my list of Apple goods and services to tout his one-trick pony claim again. See the previous post.
The Apple Watch starts at $349, not $500. It has the same water resistance rating as the Samsung Gear 2 and Gear S and most other smart watches. They aren't built as dive watches. Do strive for accuracy.
Obviously you think market share is gold. It isn't. It's pyrite, fool's gold.. Their are companies going broke pursuing market share. Samsung's mobile division comes immediately to mind. Apple has never played the market share game and isn't interested in cutting margins to chase the others into bankruptcy.
Apple plays in the revenue and profit share games and is winning handily by choosing the market demographics they want to sell their products to and for. Apple owns the profit share in the phone (not just smartphone, all phones), tablet, personal computer, MP3 player, digital payment, online App Store, smart watch (even though they've yet to ship even one), and digital music markets worldwide.
The iPad is gaining sales, just not growing as fast as it once did. . . But in relation to the high end tablet sales it leads by a country mile and is accelerating in comparison to the Android completion. It is only when the blank box "other" category of under $80 toy Android tablets with minimal capability tablets are tossed into the count is Apple ipad's market share really eroded by truly non-competitive, non-selling junk tablets, many of which will wind up in landfills, and are no threat in the market Apple competes for. iPods are being canibalized by iPhones and iPads, which is a great problem to have. . . Not the bad thing you believe at all. iPod customers buy iPads or iPhones.
The Mac Pro is wildly successful. It took Apple six months to catch up on back orders. It is a PRO computer and was always intended for Pro work. It does not have a 10% margin. . . But I think you don't know what you are talking about again, and really mean all Macs. And you mean 10% "Market share" not 10% "margin" in a niche. It depends on what part of the world you are talking about. The Mac has been growing market share in double digit percentage rates for the last several years while PCs in general have been losing market share. In some states, Apple Macs have now grown to as much as 30% of all computers in consumer use. MacBook pros are the notebook computers of choice in engineering and scientific circles, as well as computer coding and programming because they are extremely versatile.
Even your criticism drip ignorance of business and economic terminology. You are the last person anyone should give any credence to on this subject. You don't know what you are talking about except your are an expert on your own hot air filled opinions. That means you're a windbag.
Well, maybe for those very few who dive and snorkel under 200 meters, the Apple Watch is not for them. Or, they could take off the Apple watch and leave it on the boat.
Don’t argue with an idiot; people can’t tell the difference.
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