apple's earnings...

[mrd]

Actually, it is I who is the winner.

[seremtan]

actually it's Apple who are the winner because they get to make billions selling shiny products to image-obsessed metrosexuals on the backs of an army of poorly-paid and mistreated wage slaves

huzzah!

[Κracus]

cheap chinese labor

That is it, right there. Money to start things plus super cheap labor and look! I can make money!

edit: Wooooooooo 2000th post and a new icon!

[obsidian]

Apples earnings may have part to do with cheap labour, but so does every other tech company. You'll be hard pressed to find any other tech company that doesn't manufacture its products in China, Taiwan, Philippines, etc. But you don't see other companies raking in the cash like Apple, most other companies like HP are selling their products very close to cost and are relying on volume.

Apple's profits benefits from slightly higher than average tech industry margins (but not nearly as high margins as other industries like apparel), but mostly from selling services and media. Apple makes a killing selling music, movies, apps, eBooks, magazines, etc. They are the new new media company and that's partly why they dropped "computer" from "Apple Computer Company", computer hardware is just a small piece of their pie.

[Eraser]

Funny, Apple CEO feels the need to shush his own employees.

I dunno, but emailing your own employees that the reports in the NY Times are false seems like a really desperate thing to do.

[Intimidation27]

The movement should occupy Cupertino. Speaking of which I don't live far off, any ideas how to get people organized to demonstrate? Social media?

[Intimidation27]

Apples earnings may have part to do with cheap labour, but so does every other tech company. You'll be hard pressed to find any other tech company that doesn't manufacture its products in China, Taiwan, Philippines, etc. But you don't see other companies raking in the cash like Apple, most other companies like HP are selling their products very close to cost and are relying on volume.

Apple's profits benefits from slightly higher than average tech industry margins (but not nearly as high margins as other industries like apparel), but mostly from selling services and media. Apple makes a killing selling music, movies, apps, eBooks, magazines, etc. They are the new new media company and that's partly why they dropped "computer" from "Apple Computer Company", computer hardware is just a small piece of their pie.

I heard HP doesn't.

[Tsakali]

But wait, there's more:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/a ... world.html

[GONNAFISTYA]

But wait, there's more:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/a ... world.html

The only rationalization I can possibly come up with for Apple (Steve Jobs in particular) being so paranoid and secretive is because they believed (probably rightly so) that Microsoft would steal everything from out under their noses.

Another example of how psychopathic CEOs run their businesses.

[plained]

i would guess if apple made good quality stuff they would have made a fuckload less money!

[Big Kahuna Burger]

yeah, all that glass and aluminum. why cant i buy a plastic iphone yet? maybe that's why android is winning.

[Tsakali]

I heard, when a worker makes a mistake, they throw'em in the melting pot of aluminum that casts out all the cases.

[Captain]

The movement should occupy Cupertino. Speaking of which I don't live far off, any ideas how to get people organized to demonstrate? Social media?

I heard the best way to start is to fuck off Strangler.

[Eraser]

yeah, all that glass and aluminum. why cant i buy a plastic iphone yet? maybe that's why android is winning.

butthurt

[Big Kahuna Burger]

oh

[plained]

i dint think youd bite bkbro!

hey tho now that you mentioned it the drop tests on the ipone4 arnt very impressive

the high tech plastics and epoxys with metal powders in there are much tougher and more hassle-to-produce/expensive than untempered glass and beercan aluminum

jus sayin

[GONNAFISTYA]

yeah, all that glass and aluminum. why cant i buy a plastic iphone yet? maybe that's why android is winning.

[Captain]

lmao roasted

[Tsakali]

fucking lol

[Eraser]

gotta share that with some of the Apple fanboys among my friends

[Big Kahuna Burger]

i dint think youd bite bkbro!

hey tho now that you mentioned it the drop tests on the ipone4 arnt very impressive

the high tech plastics and epoxys with metal powders in there are much tougher and more hassle-to-produce/expensive than untempered glass and beercan aluminum

jus sayin

i like you but you're really dumb
also http://webchat.quakenet.org/?channels=quake3world

[Eraser]

Taiwanese making a silly video about it:

[HM-PuFFNSTuFF]

http://www.alternet.org/story/154043/ie ... you_think/

lol?

[GONNAFISTYA]

yeah....lol

[Big Kahuna Burger]

It's a bad situation. I hope Microsoft, Samsung, Acer, Amazon, Dell, HP, Intel, Motorola, Nintendo, Sony, Asus, IBM, Lenovo, and Apple can figure out a solution.