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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.'"
I've become more and more convinced that if we shut down Gardner and McKinney and the rest of the horrible slop shops, we'd actually have a better world. The MBA is a vastly overestimated degree. Far superior? Work for a summer in your uncle's business. Meet a payroll for a while. Anything you don't understand about that? You probably never will understand it. I want the old American masters of business back, not these effete, number-crunching, elitist morons. Gimme Henry Ford any day. Okay, without the antisemitism. Gimme Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive Republicans. Seen one recently? All these morons pretend like there's some science to this whole thing about business. I'll give you the scientific part: buy low, sell high. End of course. Now hit the street, maggots. When you actually make something like the Mac, or like Dell, or anybody, then we'll listen to you pimply consultants. I know what an autoworker is, or a gandy dancer fer chrissakes, but what's a "Gardner" except a parasite who's well-connected enough that he thinks his sorry little job can't be outsourced to Bangalore.
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