Ahh, yes. North Viet Nam was supported by both China and Russia - who didn't like each other that much. But because there wasn't much happening, somebody had to come up with a reason for engaging in war - make that "a police action". And later Nixon decided to get out of that non-war, and started bombing the hell out of Nam and the surrounding countries first.
And talking about dividing up a country after war - why exactly did the US agree that the USSR was allowed to keep the part of Poland they conquered in the joint invasion of that country with Nazi Germany?
Exclusive? Monopolistic? Hell, Apple can't make the Music Industry do anything, instead they can just drop the deal whenever they want. Look at Japan and Australia - Sony doesn't want to play, no Sony music in ITMS. "No other online music seller has said access"? Get your head out of your ass.
Nobody forced you to go on the peanut gallery, you went there because you like throwing peanuts.
Neither company gives that information. And Dell won't even tell us how many MP3 players they sold. And were is the actual data for Dell's last quarter anyway?
Yep, you show me the numbers when they make your offtopic point. You were the one with offtopic data about units sold. Nobody was ever talking about that. Why don't you dig up the data that shows data relavant to the topic of the main article and the point I made - which is profit margin.
You mean that my post was off topic to your offtopic post. I can live with that. It wasn't me who made up the claim that "Apple's profit margin [is] coming from [...] iPods. Not computers." Which had nothing to do with the actual numbers. Nor was it backed up by them.
The accurate profit margin. That's all I "want".
Net profit margin? Operating Profit Margin? Gross Profit Margin? Like I said, make up your mind about which measure of profit margin you want. Because I don't want you to weasel out of this by claiming I didn't "get the comparison right".
First of all, you were talking about how Apple is all about the iPod. Just because Dell can't sell their crappy MP3 players if their profit margins depended on them doesn't make you right.
And if you are to lazy to actually look up the numbers yourself, at least tell me what measure of profit margin you want.
"[Dell is] too much of a one-trick pony," says a former high-ranking Dell executive. "They're not innovating, or building enough new businesses. They've executed flawlessly for 10 years, but that's kind of an impossible thing to continue." Many customers have complained that Dell's once-acceptable customer service has slipped (see BW, 10/10/05, "Hanging Up on Dell?").
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on Professor Jones's back already?
It already is false. Why else did he test 10.4.1, not 10.4.3? That whole damn article would have been news a couple of months ago.
Ahh, so obviously this time Motorola struck back, and sabotaged the ROKR to damage the iPod line.
Power your time machine with it, and go back in time to patent both.
To get your Mac at an Education Discount.
Are you implying that Joseph R. McCarthy was a communist? ;-)
And I thought that it was the US alone that won the war, and the USSR was only a bit player.
Nor is anybody able to confirm this "largest non-nuclear explosion in the planet's history".
And talking about dividing up a country after war - why exactly did the US agree that the USSR was allowed to keep the part of Poland they conquered in the joint invasion of that country with Nazi Germany?
Many would rather see it go on, because the US is a bad winner.
While the secret operations of the Western agencies mostly stay secret for a couple more decades. Not that those that come out aren't bad enough.
Yeah, I'm sure all the people killed by American covert operations like this appreciate that they died for a good cause.
And for some reason they still get licenses, so I doubt that would help much.
Nobody forced you to go on the peanut gallery, you went there because you like throwing peanuts.
"Monopoly status with the Music Industry"? The peanut gallery is getting desperate.
Over 60 mph without any aerodynamics.
Yeah, and one company is "too much of a one-trick pony", while the other isn't. So comparing them was doomed from the start.
Neither company gives that information. And Dell won't even tell us how many MP3 players they sold. And were is the actual data for Dell's last quarter anyway?
You mean that my post was off topic to your offtopic post. I can live with that. It wasn't me who made up the claim that "Apple's profit margin [is] coming from [...] iPods. Not computers." Which had nothing to do with the actual numbers. Nor was it backed up by them.
The accurate profit margin. That's all I "want".
Net profit margin? Operating Profit Margin? Gross Profit Margin? Like I said, make up your mind about which measure of profit margin you want. Because I don't want you to weasel out of this by claiming I didn't "get the comparison right".
And if you are to lazy to actually look up the numbers yourself, at least tell me what measure of profit margin you want.
So is Dell's low growth also intentional? Or are they truely screwed?
Year-over-year unit-growth rate worldwide (computers that is): Dell 17.8%, Apple 48%. Yeah, it's all about the iPod.
What's wrong in the story submission? (You will be paid in Zonks)
How can you call Linux a "niche" OS?
Thanks for pointing out that Linux is niche OS by saying that it is very successful in the niche market "servers".