Slashdot Mirror
Why iPod Can't Save Apple
MadMirko writes "MacNN quotes an article from Money Magazine titled Why iPod can't save Apple, which says 'the buzz on the digital music player and "swank" storefronts are masking an ebbing bottom line, noting reduced CPU sales (resulting a shrinking marketshare), decreased profits (in part due to the lower-margin iPod and little-to-no profit at the iTunes Music Store), failure of the iPod to drive CPU sales, failure of the retail stores to increase marketshare, hidden retail store costs, no operational income, and little value in the stock.'"
Going out of business for over 28 years
What about my halibut?
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. --Ford Prefect
But in the midst of the rescue attempt, the battery died and couldn't be replaced!
And the year before that...
And the year before that year...
And the year before that year...
Welcome to every point in the past 10 years except NOW.
Good. We wouldn't want impared perambulatory function or to have to miss dinner.
Stick Men
Here, you won't have to sell your sole to read it
I hate having selling my fish to read the news.
OS X is based on BSD....
Yeah, but this article is different... I don't think they used the term beleagered once.
- Tony
Geez, that point, obvious as it is, went right over my head, just like must have gone over the head of the analyst.
It's like in HGtG when God exclaims, "Oh dear, I hadn't thought o that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.
You are in error. No-one is screaming. Thank you for your cooperation.
Yet at the same time, Google has reported [google.com] an increase in the percentage of Mac users using Google.
Exactly, they're all shopping online for new PCs.
Hey, where would Microsoft get all their R&D from if not for Apple?
If you're going to ingest hallucinogens, at least - offer us some.
APPL!?
What does Appell Petroleum Corporation (APPL.PK) have to do with Apple Computer?
You must mean AAPL.
And one year they'll be right. It's a definite that one day apple will die. Just as IBM will die, Intel will die, AMD will die, America will die, England will die. Over an infinite amount of time all these things will one day end. It's a definite and provable truth. So yes Apple is constantly about to die, but the question is on who's timeline are you talking?
I dunno about that. Some groups (IBM, The Rolling Stones, etc)have so much money and power they'll probably be around forever. Even if the universe was going to end, IBM's R&D would probably to develop a method to transport itself to an alternate dimension.
Life is too short to proofread.
How about an iDea?
Over an infinite amount of time all these things will one day end. It's a definite and provable truth.
Reminds me of an old joke from a friend's sig line: "I plan on living forever. So far, so good."
"In a 32-bit world, you're a 2-bit user. You've got your own newsgroup, alt.total.loser." -Weird Al
You would think that windows would die first, what with all the viruses it keeps getting.
Wow, I'll bet you're a real buzz kill at parties.
If you're going to ingest hallucinogens, at least - offer us some.
Ahhhh, spoken like a true Linux user: Wanting someone to give you something for nothing eh?
`I plan to live forever. Or die trying.'
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Has Highlander taught you nothing?
Ceterum censeo Microsoftem esse delendam
The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.
The second rule of fight club is you DO NOT talk about fight club.
Quit floundering around and just read the article.
--
I Hit the Karma Cap, and All I Got Was This Lousy
If I remember correctly Apple has 20 billion in cash. If having 20 billion in cash means you need to be saved we are all doomed.
I like things that are sweet and not things that are lame. --
Why so crabby?
bp
No no! It's true! I have a sign right here a guy I used to know grabbed right from the front door of One Infinite Loop!It reads "Going out of Business! Everything must go! Up to 50% off BRAND NEW INSTOCK Macintosh II, IIx, IIcx, Mac Plus, Mac 512, Apple II, Apple III cpus and the BRAND NEW IN STOCK Apple Laserwriter!" I didn't think to keep it mylar, and it's a little yellowed and the edges are curling up a bit, showing a bit of wear. At one point I think I might have spilled coffee on it.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
I dunno about that. Some groups (IBM, The Rolling Stones, etc)have so much money and power they'll probably be around forever. Even if the universe was going to end, IBM's R&D would probably to develop a method to transport itself to an alternate dimension.
At least the Rolling Stones but fortunately, the Afterlife doesn't seem too keen on issuing passports. Now, IBMs R&D probably invented the time bubble that the Restaurant at the End of the Universe in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is in. Hmm, come to think of it, maybe they've already invented it, that'd explain a lot...
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
G4? That's so last year. Go for a dual G5 Aluminum Cased Tower.
:/
I wouldn't mind having one of them... now if I could just get past the one button mouse thing...
Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
I've seen some of those PC games. That's the equivalent of the following conversation:
Joe Customer: Look, Marge! We can get a plate of meatloaf for $10, or a bucket o' shit for $2.99.
Marge Customer: Git th' bucket Joe! Git th' bucket!
Of course, anyone who underestimates the stupidity of Joe Customer is pretty stupid themselves.
Bart: I feel like I'm going to die, Lisa
Lisa: We're all going to die, Bart.
Bart: I meant soon.
Lisa: So did I.
"Open the pod by doors, Hal" > "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave" sudo "Open the pod bay doors, Hal" > alright
That was one of Villa's lines. But I still like his request for "100 virgins in red fur uniforms - I'll call them Villa's Royal Mounties" from the episode Orbit.
-- oldthinkers unbellyfeel ingsoc
Keith Richards doesn't even need money. His brain has been dead for years but the drugs are keeping his corpse animated enough to fool most people...
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
You're giving me carp-al tunnel syndrome hitting page down on my keelboard.
...I predict that 2004 will be the year of Linux on the desktop!
free speach
Did you mean: free speech
Yeah, but this article is different... I don't think they used the term beleagered once.
You're saying that "beleaguered" is not a part of Apple's full company name? Wow!
(credit where credit is due)
Apple - Unsuccessfully going out of business since 1995.
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
Optionally, they can just have their legal department file a temporary injunction against the universe ending.
They DO have more lawyers than the universe has employees, they're that big.
Tired of legitimate data sources? Try UNCYCLOPEDIA
i find it hard to believe that these Wall $treet analy$tS have any shred of credibility left anymore--not counting the last few years scandals (Enron and MCI were analyst darlings, the disgrace of Jack Grubman and Mary Meeker, among others)...
oh, wait, Martha Stewart was indicted, so that means they've cleaned up Wall Street!;>
Gee, I wonder how many would have turned out if the weather was nice?
OTOH, Japanese have umbrellas built into their quadriceps like robocop
"The general contract of the method run is that it may take any action whatsoever." -- Java 2 API
death watch
--- What?
You know the drill...
1)
2)
3) Profit!!!!
He's usually very mellow; must be a fluke. :o)
This discussion is giving me a haddock.
every good
Then Apple has nothing to worry about.
- learn to swim.
Not sure I wanna be know as the kid who tagged his mom after the senior prom. But if thats your style, so be it.
Have to wonder if the article actually used that word. :)
That guy is sooo last year, talking about Apple dying. Nowadays, all the cool financial analysts are talking about the nearing death of Nintendo, duh.