Apple: Three Battles Won, Nicely Positioned for the Fourth [View article]
MKW,
Can a cut of 1600 personnel from their retail division can have such an impact on gross margin so if they cut another 2000 will the gross margin go up by another 20%?
Get real, retail staff do not have that great an impact on gross margin especially when some of them are on a part time basis. The real impact will come from labour costs and components for their hardware and R&D and labour costs for their software.
In addition their cash hoard enable them to get their components at the best price.
RIMM, Verizon Fire Salvo in Smartphone War [View article]
It may be a bad move. In this challenging economic times one want to conserve their cash to get what one believe to be the best. This is not the time to foolish sign up for anything free. But if he or she is hankering for a Blackberry by all means. But for those who are not in a hurry there will be many more good deals coming along.
Wanted, Dead or Alive: The iPhone Killer [View article]
Apple users are not sheep, they know what works and work doesn't, they can differential great user experience with crappy experience. They love their computers and after years of usage they still fetch great values in ebay. And why change when everything just works.
Apple's New iPhone Applications No Threat to RIM's BlackBerry [View article]
The IT manager head will roll once the management notice the costs of using RIM is higher if not much higher than Exchange.
To those <who are "notoriously fickle on manageability, control, support and security> good luck and hope you will find another good IT job in these lean times.
iPhone platform will be bigger than the PCs, why? because it is a mobile computer which you can bring it to anywhere. Most of the everyday stuffs like surfing, checking emails, write your blog, can be done by it easily besides listening to music, watching videos and answering calls. And now gamers can play games on it. Give it a few years you will be eating your words.
Apple vs. Microsoft: Who Will Bring the Ideal Mobile Productivity Device? [View article]
You have not even seen what Apple is doing and you can come to this kind of conclusion.
As I have been saying if bloggers are really good they would and should be writing great softwares and inventing hardwares and not guessing.
Apple: Three Battles Won, Nicely Positioned for the Fourth [View article]
Can a cut of 1600 personnel from their retail division can have such an impact on gross margin so if they cut another 2000 will the gross margin go up by another 20%?
Get real, retail staff do not have that great an impact on gross margin especially when some of them are on a part time basis. The real impact will come from labour costs and components for their hardware and R&D and labour costs for their software.
In addition their cash hoard enable them to get their components at the best price.
BlackBerry Remains Leader in Smartphone Market [View article]
iPhones sold 30m after 2 years in the market.
All Apple has to do is get over the inertia the IT department has by making a better product, the rest will be history.
The blackberries are email phones per se.... is that useful in a world which need cutting edge technology to stay ahead?
RIMM, Verizon Fire Salvo in Smartphone War [View article]
Wanted, Dead or Alive: The iPhone Killer [View article]
And why change when everything just works.
Apple's New iPhone Applications No Threat to RIM's BlackBerry [View article]
To those <who are "notoriously fickle on manageability, control, support and security> good luck and hope you will find another good IT job in these lean times.
A New World for the iPhone [View article]
And now gamers can play games on it.
Give it a few years you will be eating your words.