I'm pretty sure you haven't read any of Apple's financial statements.
Things you got wrong: 1. There are 3 times as many OS X devices as iOS devices - Apple sold 3.7 Million CPUs last quarter, but sold 32.3 million iOS devices last quarter 2. Apple doesn't release profit margin per device, so you can't know that iOS devices have a lower profit that OS X devices. Much less state this as a fact. 3. Steve Jobs stating anything like what you're stating.
No they do NOT lump in hardware with software purchases.
It's under Other Music Related Products and Services (3)
Footnote (3): (3) Includes sales from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore in addition to sales of iPod services and Apple-branded and third-party iPod accessories.
If you read it again, the comment was that malware can infect programs in the Applications folder with ease. Which isn't true. It still requires sudo, which means typing in the admin password, even if it's blank (you still have to address the dialog box that pops up).
Users with admin privs still require sudo, ie typing in the admin privilege password, to install in the/Applications folder. That's not "with ease". That's security.
You know that you're like the 10th person to try to justify that Apple was 'forced' to open their improvements, as if they don't use & rely on open source. As if Apple has never done open source software: http://opensource.apple.com/ Apple saw a project, forked it, made it better, and returned the source. Just like every other open source user.
And I'll change my sig when there's a phone that has KHTML as the default browser.
You may not count my work computers/phones/tablets, but since I use them for a majority of my waking time, including accessing my personal data, I count them as part of my digital life.
Well, re-reading the GP comment, I believe he actually believed the one pc, one person comment. And maybe I could see that - everything stored on a remote server (ie the cloud) that you access from any device. And the PC becomes the data not the interface to get to the data. But I'm not sure Bill Gates saw that either.
Pretty sure Apple stock doesn't reflect what you're saying.
Compare P/E of AAPL to most any other stock with even half the growth rates that Apple has. Wall Street either doesn't see or doesn't agree that Apple/Jobs has a vision of the future. In spite of them proving it, quarter after quarter, for about 5 years now.
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You might want to justify YOUR baseless statements.
Even Greenpeace says they're the best tech company in terms of eliminating 'dangerous' chemicals, and only dings them on communicating policy:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up/
"Apple does best on the toxic chemicals criteria, where it scores most of its points. "
Somehow, that puts Apple in 9th place - best in practice where it actually matters, poor in clear communications.
I'm pretty sure you haven't read any of Apple's financial statements.
Things you got wrong:
1. There are 3 times as many OS X devices as iOS devices - Apple sold 3.7 Million CPUs last quarter, but sold 32.3 million iOS devices last quarter
2. Apple doesn't release profit margin per device, so you can't know that iOS devices have a lower profit that OS X devices. Much less state this as a fact.
3. Steve Jobs stating anything like what you're stating.
You might actually want to go read this:
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q211data_sum.pdf
No they do NOT lump in hardware with software purchases.
It's under Other Music Related Products and Services (3)
Footnote (3):
(3) Includes sales from the iTunes Store, App Store, and iBookstore in addition to sales of iPod services and Apple-branded and third-party iPod accessories.
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q211data_sum.pdf
Hardware sales of iOS, not software sales.
Go look at Apple's own numbers:
iPod - $1.6B
iPhone - $12.2B
iPad - $2.2B
Music/Apps (which is other) - $1.6B
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q211data_sum.pdf
Middlemen is plural.
Apple is singular.
But frankly, they've done a better job than all the middlemen combined who came before them - better services at a better cost to the producer.
Is that a nerd-burn?
Who puts a lake/pond in the middle of the shortest distance across the circle??
Pretty sure that they're not going to kill off a segment that generates about $5Billion/quarter.
http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf/q211data_sum.pdf
$50 bucks. Holy crap.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/server/
OS X Server running in VMware.
Coming this fall for everyone with less than a $50M data center.
http://virtualization.info/en/news/2011/04/more-details-about-vsphere-5-appear-online.html
Here, the law rules?
New?
Yeah, you might want to go back and look at the state of KHTML before Apple forked it. Apple wrote the bulk of what is the modern day WebKit.
Read the rest of the article.
"The nematodes he ultimately discovered live in extremely hot water coming from boreholes fed by rock fissures and pools."
It would at least be a step in the right direction...
I do that one time, set it as default and it comes up every day like that.
Or the first party apps ie Office. Nothing in that suite has become touch enabled either.
If you read it again, the comment was that malware can infect programs in the Applications folder with ease. Which isn't true. It still requires sudo, which means typing in the admin password, even if it's blank (you still have to address the dialog box that pops up).
Users with admin privs still require sudo, ie typing in the admin privilege password, to install in the /Applications folder. That's not "with ease". That's security.
You know that you're like the 10th person to try to justify that Apple was 'forced' to open their improvements, as if they don't use & rely on open source. As if Apple has never done open source software:
http://opensource.apple.com/
Apple saw a project, forked it, made it better, and returned the source. Just like every other open source user.
And I'll change my sig when there's a phone that has KHTML as the default browser.
Wondering if this is on/because of zfs or some other filesystem change from HFS+.
You may not count my work computers/phones/tablets, but since I use them for a majority of my waking time, including accessing my personal data, I count them as part of my digital life.
Well, re-reading the GP comment, I believe he actually believed the one pc, one person comment. And maybe I could see that - everything stored on a remote server (ie the cloud) that you access from any device. And the PC becomes the data not the interface to get to the data. But I'm not sure Bill Gates saw that either.
I'm one person. I have about 7 PCs, if you count work & home computers, phones, tablets, entertainment devices.
Pretty sure Apple stock doesn't reflect what you're saying.
Compare P/E of AAPL to most any other stock with even half the growth rates that Apple has. Wall Street either doesn't see or doesn't agree that Apple/Jobs has a vision of the future. In spite of them proving it, quarter after quarter, for about 5 years now.