Posted on 01/10/2016 7:41:05 PM PST by Swordmaker
do you not get why people think you are a troll etc when all your posting history is about promoting Apple and nothing about politics on a political board.?
Not having a go , but surely on a political board one would expect one to actually read some politics off you.
There ya go lying again, swordmaker. You are using old numbers to try to make Microsoft's Surface seem unprofitable. Only a communist/liberal lying propagandist does that type of thing. Should we bring back the $2 stock price of Apple and declare it to be dead?? Maybe talk about the writeoffs Apple has had? You liberal liars would that.
Microsoft's Surface line-up posts 2nd straight profitable quarter [Jan 27, 2015]
Microsoft Surface Revenue Increased 117% To $888 Million [July 21 2015]
I think the big thing to talk about is the record profits liberal Apple declares while moving their production to cheap labor China instead of hiring American workers. You brag about those profits, yet, as an American I see as horrible for Americans.
Have you made your payment to FR yet for being allowed to post pro-Apple press releases every day? What, 1-5 articles per day, every day? Seems you owe FR millions of dollars for advertising. I am sure you are being paid to post these articles, so what does FR get out of it all??
And you should have left it at that. But no, you had to waste your valuable time writing a fact-free comment.
> Can you please stop posting blatant lying crap like this?
Seriously, you are that afraid of opposing ideas? Are you actually a Liberal Democrat? A true Conservative doesn't try to censor or shut down an opposing idea -- they argue it with facts. You're welcome to your opinion, and you can post anti-Apple threads to your heart's content, as you do. (You and I have had this conversation already.) But just because you hate Apple doesn't mean everybody else has to stop talking about them. Get a grip, FRiend.
You know, Up Yours, our FRiend DennisW posts virulantly anti-Apple stuff nearly daily, cluttering up Apple threads with gay abandon, but he does so with a sense of humor. You might borrow a card from his hand and improve your own.
"Nothing"? Please do a more thorough search of Swordmaker's activity on the forum next time. While he, like myself, tends to post mainly on tech topics, he's active in political and other non-Apple threads as well.
Evidence to prove your lying scurrilous allegation? I have not made so much a thin dime from anything I've posted on Freerepublic, asshat. You protest so much I think you must be what you accuse me of being. Who pays YOU?
What does FR get out of it all? FR gets well rounded content that the readers WANT to read that interests them. . . at least 700 of them are interested in this topic. There are also people who are interested in cats, dogs, Windows computers, Android topics, religion, catholicism, other tech issues, guns, music, pop culture, history, archaeology, sports, humor, crime, physics, science, automobiles, fashion, movies and TV, Astronomy, the Stock market, biology, earthquakes, weather . . . essentially anything that interests your fellow Freepers. . . including anything that has to do with Apple computers and devices that interests over 700 of the members of Freerepublic.
They'd prefer to read it without all of the nasty negative bile and horrid judgmental accusations you and your cohorts in the Apple Hate Brigade repeated and boringly bring to the threads at the drop of the thread, over, and over, and over, and over. You've made your points. Now drop it. You're opinion has been heard ad nauseum. We are SICK OF YOU. Go bother someone who gives a damn about your ignorant, ill informed hate filled opinions.
OK!!!!!!!!!
Sword is a valued FR content provider....mostly Apple of course but I see people flocking to his threads. Apple is a Rorschach test. Apple has also come to symbolize the US stock markets. Be a stand in so that as long as AAPL has been doing well the last 6 years, you knew the markets were doing well.
This is now going into reverse and we know the US markets are in the danger zone due to AAPL plunge down 23% or so in a few months.
Thank you, Dennis. . .
As for your claim that the Microsoft Surface is profitable, Microsoft took a $900 million write off in 2013, the following year there were more losses with losses in the first two quarters, digging the loss hole to overcome even deeper before they can claim to be showing a legitimate profit on their quasi-tablets that really require a surface/table to use. Finally, in the last two quarters of 2014, the surface did start to show positive revenue flows, but not yet a profit. For two quarters of 2015, the same, positive revenue flows, but the third quarter revenue DROPPED by 49%, back into the red again. ("Device revenue was down a significant 49 percent, with revenue of both phones and Surface computers dropping."-- Microsoft Financial Reports - as reported in Ars Technica, October 22, 2015)
That means that the third quarter of 2015, surface revenues were down to around $450 million, about where they were the same quarter the year before, after having a growth spurt the previous quarter. Microsoft's guidance for the quarter was an INCREASE in sales over the current quarter, but what they got was a reduction by almost 50%! That translates into a huge operating profit loss, as they would have produced Surface units to meet their anticipated demand.
We do not yet have a report for the fourth quarter of 2015.
So, we have a better than one Billion dollar loss that has to be repaid before any profits can be counted toward profits. Operating profits that can be applied toward making that up are only about $490 million. Microsoft has about $600 million or so to go before they can truthfully said to be showing any profits on their surface line.
So much for your claims of the Microsoft Surface showing profits. Got any other candidates?
In the meantime, I'll go with the international financial reporters, not you.
I did do a search history and see what it posted,. The word is hardly or nothing about politics and all about promoting Apple
Does not compute!! :)
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