The problem is they are commited to a minimum product velocity with or without subscriptions. Stocks will tank even more if they sit on a bunch of old hardware. Owners of Frys Electronics used to say "Treat everything like tomatoes, when its fresh and new everyone wants it, few days later you have to mark down to move it, later still you can sell it for pennies on the dollar for ketchup, after that it has no value". In manufacturing and in retail - the Inventory has to move. Ideally Apple would want it sold with subscriptions, but realistically they will settle for moving units which will still maintain their BRANDING. Apple would rather have their units out there even without ATT kickback. As far as their stock goes, I remember it being in the ten buck range, I think they are doing alright these days... Its called cost averaging.
Apple always known about the gray market, Apple always supported the gray market, Apple always whined about the gray market. The truth is they always wanted and needed all the incremental revenue they could get. On the front end I remember them going out to the gray resellers and collecting serial numbers swearing they will get to the bottom of their source. On the back end they continued to pump millions of MDF dollars into known gray resellers to subsidise their low margins and to encourage them to keep up the volume. With the dollar being low and economy sucking eggs at home they are happy to offload as many units overseas with or without subscriptions. This gets rid of inventories that they will eventually have to price-protect at disti or super-retailer levels, and frees up purchasers to buy the new better/bigger products. The Spice Must Flow.
Is there an influential senator behind this technology? Whoever got the most influence and bribe money can probably get us into cars powered by deep fryer grease.
With all that liquid carbon dioxide we will slip into GLOBAL COLDING!!! Jump ahead of the curve and start lobbying for zero HYDROGEN footprint initiatives!
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The problem is they are commited to a minimum product velocity with or without subscriptions. Stocks will tank even more if they sit on a bunch of old hardware. Owners of Frys Electronics used to say "Treat everything like tomatoes, when its fresh and new everyone wants it, few days later you have to mark down to move it, later still you can sell it for pennies on the dollar for ketchup, after that it has no value". In manufacturing and in retail - the Inventory has to move. Ideally Apple would want it sold with subscriptions, but realistically they will settle for moving units which will still maintain their BRANDING. Apple would rather have their units out there even without ATT kickback. As far as their stock goes, I remember it being in the ten buck range, I think they are doing alright these days... Its called cost averaging.
Apple always known about the gray market, Apple always supported the gray market, Apple always whined about the gray market. The truth is they always wanted and needed all the incremental revenue they could get. On the front end I remember them going out to the gray resellers and collecting serial numbers swearing they will get to the bottom of their source. On the back end they continued to pump millions of MDF dollars into known gray resellers to subsidise their low margins and to encourage them to keep up the volume. With the dollar being low and economy sucking eggs at home they are happy to offload as many units overseas with or without subscriptions. This gets rid of inventories that they will eventually have to price-protect at disti or super-retailer levels, and frees up purchasers to buy the new better/bigger products. The Spice Must Flow.
Dont you have to be kinda stupid to fall for that?
Is there an influential senator behind this technology? Whoever got the most influence and bribe money can probably get us into cars powered by deep fryer grease.
With all that liquid carbon dioxide we will slip into GLOBAL COLDING!!! Jump ahead of the curve and start lobbying for zero HYDROGEN footprint initiatives!