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Apple Makes no Profit from iTunes
Some Beech writes: "The Register has an article about the lack of profit from iTunes. Also mentioned in a Seattle Times article dated 27th October, it seems Apple is relying on iTunes to drive iPod sales rather then being a profit centre on its own." Another reader pointed us to Apple's details from the Analyst Meeting.
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Nobody likes any Crapple products. Not the Crapintosh, Craptunes, or the I-Crap
I've scoured the web, and have yet to find any juicey Jessica Lynch slash fiction. I know you depraved bastards out there must have it somewhere!!! Cough it up! I want to know what that West Virginia hillbilly hosemonster did to pass the time while they were waiting for the war to start out there in the desert. Those soldiers must have been bored and horny, I bet they got into some really depraved eight-way action!
they make tons selling shit PPC crap that IBM doesnt consider good enough for real machinery.
they also make a ton on suck crap OS X, making people buy service packs as new OS.
ipod and itunes suck. ipod breaks while jogging.
itunes has DRM, cannot be shared more than 10 times, and is SUPER LOW QUALITY. buying a CD is cheaper per track.
APPL. You people bought Jobs a jet and got yourselves a PIECE OF SHIT. I laugh at you FUCKING MORONS.
8 steps to greasing your anus for yoda doll insertion
1) defecate. preferably after eating senna, ex lax, prunes, cabbage and hot sauces.
2) wipe ass with witch hazel, soothes horrific burns
3) prime anus with anal ease.
4) slather richly a considerable amount of vaseline or other anal lubricants into your rectum at least until the bend and also take your yoda doll or yoda soap on a rope and liberally apply it.
5) pucker your ballon knot several times actuating the sphincter muscle in order to work it in
6) slowly rest yourself onto your yoda figurine
7) make sure to have a mechanism by which to fish yoda out of your rectum, the soap on the rope is especially useful because that is built in.
8) gyrate gleefully in your computer chair while your fat sexless geek nerd loser fat shit self enjoys the prostate massage you'll be getting. Read slashdot. Masturbate to anime. Email one of the editors hoping they will honor you with a reply. Join several more dating services - this time, you dont check the (desired - speaks english) and (desired - literate). You figure you might get a chance then. Order some fucking crap from Think Geek. Get Linux to boot on a Black And Decker Appliance. Wish you could afford a new computer. Argue that IDE is better than SCSI because you cant afford SCSI. Make claims about how Linux rules. Compile a kernel on your 486SX. Claim to hate windows but use it for Everquest. Admire Ghyslain's courage in making that wonderful star wars movie. Officially convert to the Jedi religion. Talk about how cool Mega Tokyo is. Try and make sure you do your regular 50 story submissions to Slashdot, all of which get rejected because people who arent fatter than CowboyNeal can't submit. Fondle shrimpy penis while making a yoda voice and saying, feel the force, padawan, feeel the foooorce, hurgm. Yes. Yes. When 900 years you reach, a dick half as big you will not have.
All in a days work with a yoda figurine rammed up your ass.
Your point would make sense if Apple opened up their hardware architecture and allowed the competition in with their Apple-compatible boxes.
The "market acceptance" of PC architecture did not happen because of some whimsical God out there deciding that PCs should have better luck. It was availability of multiple hardware vendors and multiple operating system that brought in the commoditization of architecture.
I for one am glad to see you reading and writing despite your obvious mental handicap.
Keep reaching for those stars!
Have you forgotten the dot-com boom and bust so quickly? Since when did a rational business model have anything to do with Internet companies?
Everyone is saying "Apple is doing it! So can we!" All twenty of those companies are going to lose millions as they struggle for market share. Most, if not all, will be gone in two to three years.
If Jobs is smart, he'll wait until most of the competition has gone bust, then use iTune's leverage as the #1 legal music distributor to get a better deal from the music industry, i.e. "It's either iTunes or Kazaa. Take your pick."
...that Apple would not have support costs, would not have to pay the RIAA, would not have to pay credit card costs, etc., etc?
Contrary to the semi-literate ravings The Register cranks out to boost readership and, hence, their own revenue, (go look up "yellow journalism in your history books, boys and girls. God, it's embarrassing to have that rag associated with this industry.), the rest of the world does not work on a gratis basis.
No one is ever going to prevent the record industry from charging whatever it wants to charge until someone else puts together a different marketing structure that, somehow, charges less. And, oh, when that happens, people will find out just how altruistic their favorite musicians really are. Entertainers are like you and me: they don't want a pay cut.
It's hard for me to believe that Apple didn't know this going in, and has always positioned music sales as a loss leader for the iPod.
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