Apple Should Get Out of Hardware?

SQLGuru writes to mention an analyst recommendation being reported on ZDNet. Despite a BusinessWeek article about Apple's record breaking hardware sales, the folks at Gartner think Apple should get out of the hardware business. Calling for the company to license its hardware to Dell, the analyst company says that gains in Apple's hardware sales are simply not sustainable. From the article: "Apple's margins for its Mac business, currently around 40 percent, are only sustainable because component makers such as Intel choose to prop up the business, Gartner claimed. Given that HP has forced Intel to offer it comparable pricing to Dell, Intel is unlikely to continue to subsidise Apple, the analyst argues. 'As a result of permanently changed market conditions, Intel has been forced to restructure and, in our opinion, cannot go on supporting Apple (or any other customer) indefinitely.'"

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You apparently know nothing of what you claim such strong emotions about. First, Israel is hardly an apartheid state. What country in the middle east can Palestinans vote? What country can they own property? What country can they serve in parliament? What country do they have full legal protections of the courts and law? If you know the answer to each, which I highly doubt, then your sig and churlish post must have been designed to elicit a the type of response it has. For in each case, the answer is the same: Israel. How many Palestinians, or any Arabs in any Arab country for that matter, have been tried and sent to jail for crimes against Jews or Israelis? News flash, none. Yet Israelis are right now in jail because of crimes committed against Palestinians.

If the Palestinians wanted peace, they could have it right now. All they have to do is acknowledge Isreal's right to exist, end the violence, and begin things like trade. That's it. They refuse all of that. It is they that want a perpetual state of war, they that want to destroy Isreal, etc. Consider this: at the southern end of Israel, across the Gulf of Acquba, one can see (one of) the Saudi's largest oil refineries, defended only by a token police force. no anti-aircraft batteries, no airplanes, etc. Why? It is litteraly a 2 minute flight from Israeal, yet it will never happen. Why? Because Israel has no claims or animosity towards the Saudis.

Should Israel have wanted to invade and conquer Syria, Jordan, et al., it would have long since done so. Instead, it pursues simply to peacefully live, nay exist, alongside its neighbors. It would rather trade goods than missiles and threats. Given its large arsenal, how many missiles did they shoot into Iraq? How many Israeli PM's have threatened Iran with annihiliation? How many countries does Israel have a perpetual decalration of war against? How many terrorists does Israel fund to blow themselves up in Arab restaraunts? But you already know the answers to those, I presume.

I don't think it's anti-semitism, anti-Jewish, or anti-anything that drives you. It's pure stupidity and ignorance.

(not posted anon because I'll at least stand on the truth and facts. of course I'll be modded down. Such is the /. life.)