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Apple Cuts Price On 1GB iPod Shuffle, Unveils 2GB Version
Sheesh, at the normal margins of a little under 40% the potential profit on one of these was 32 bucks, and now is 15 bucks. Like come on here now....
.... darned aNALists, focus in on where the REAL ACTION is happening now with the firm.
.... one, the desktops the iMacs selling for around 2k on average decked out, with a margin yeilding 800 bucks, the new MacBook Air, which despite all the boo-hoo'ing has the sex appeal of a glossy farrarri ... I know, I have one, and everyone that owns one is reporting that just about ALL the WinDozers who see this little baby in action, start having OS X dreams with curvy aluminum highlights!
Almost all the EXPENSIVE things are selling WAY above expectations, and the ANALists focus in on the kiddie crap that sells for pennies.
Come on here guys, the last quarter was UP 58%. Do'h, the banks are loosing BILLIONS and Apple has never made so much money, is sitting on 18 Bill in cash, and it's retail stores are GROSSING 4 TIMES per square foot in sales the highest of the high end retail locations.
And the ANALists keep counting CHEAPO iPods as if they are anything more than the intro kit to the Apple *EXPERIENCE*....
.... ask around, do you know of ANYONE that has switched FROM OS X, and Apple in the last two years TO WinDOZE? Even one?
Run some hypotheticals and leave out the iPods without screens totally, act as if they don't even have them for sale....the numbers are STILL astronomical and growing.
Go to an Apple store, I dare you on a Saturday, NOW post Christmas, in the worst time for retailling everywhere, count the bodies in the store, then walk down the street, or around the Mall, see if ANYONE has that kind of visible action going on...and they are not just lookers either.
Apple Sitting on Excess Inventory?
And a good temple and some smoke and incense with a powerful array of impressive clothing, moans, groans and utterances AT LEAST made the "show" more impressive.
Apple Sitting on Excess Inventory?
OK, give me ONE "negative news" item that will REDUCE INCOME or PROFIT.
I dare you, theres isn't any, none, nada, zip.
THE *ONLY* "news* here, is the ANALYSTS don't agree with each other, isn't it?
And WTF to analysts DO anyway, GUESS, and we have all seen recently just how ACCURATE they have been with the banks, mortgage companies, and general economic conditions.
Now if we can only instruct the Jihaadist suicide bombers that ANALYSTS are the enemeny instead of Israeli schoolchildren, the world just might be more rational. Every explosion would rid the world of a Jihaadist AND some soothsayers with shit for brains.
Apple Sitting on Excess Inventory?
Forgot to add... "F%$%# S#*&% B@$%^#%DS"
Which is deservedly earned for FAILING to note, that in the first 15 days of the year, Apple was the FIRST to introduce, include, and implement not ONE, but TWO entirely new INTEL chips, one into the totally ignored MacPRO
Mac Pro with our suggested configuration:
Two 2.8GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Harpertown” processors
2GB memory (800MHz DDR2 fully-buffered DIMM ECC)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics with 256MB memory
320GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s 7200-rpm hard drive1
16x double-layer SuperDrive
YAWN, sheesh, only the MOST POWERFUL PERSONAL computer on the planet....
Then the new MacBook Air with INTEL producing a completely renovated chip with a SIXTY PERCENT size reduction....
YAWN.
It WAS duly noted however, that Steve Jobs DID FAIL to walk on water at the presentation however, leading analysts to conclude that his Messianic Powers of innovation were less than the year before and his return to "merely mortal with just insanely innovative" was below expectations.
I only have one question, WHY do ANY of us listen to these "Bozo's-in-Wonder... ?
Apple Sitting on Excess Inventory?
Morons.
They are seeing a slowdown in the iPod growth RATE/UNITS, whereas the DOLLAR VALUE PER UNIT SOLD increased by 18%. Showing that upgrades to more powerful and more expensive music players has begun.
Two...
They TOTALLY ignored the MASSIVE INCREASE of 50+% in the VERY EXPENSIVE and profitable desktop units.
So, we focus in on the slowing sales of $100 ipods and IGNORE the massive increase in $2,000 full featured units?
Some days I honestly believe that analysists could not figure their way out of a paper bag unless they ALL RAN in the same direction suddenly to puncture the sides and escape that way.
Sheesh.
You have SALES UP huge, you have VOLUME UP where it counts, and you have THREE NEW REVENUE streams, rental movies, the NEW MARKET the MacBook Air opens up, the ultraportable, and the revamped and improved Apple TV with DIRECT purchase from the net without even owning a computer, and what do they focus on?
The crumbs, YIKES, the crumb sales are slowing down, and they push off the table the main courses with MOST of the "calories."
And the end result?
The LEMMINGS all decide that DESPITE a rousing and encouraging INCREASE IN EVERYTHING THAT *COUNTS*.... they will exit now and chase FAILING BANKS as the best thing since sliced bacon.
NO WONDER year after year, 80% of them UNDERPERFORM the market averages.