well when you can take hardware that cost same as everyone else's and sell it at 2-300% mark up, yet people still buy it cause they are idiots. You will have insane profits, google may not have the insane $ but they are seen as a much better company as most their products are FREE.
Apple DOMINATES the Valley, rakes in more profit than Google, HP, Intel, Cisco COMBINED
Apple again dominated all Silicon Valley competition in 2013, so much so that in the San Jose Mercury News' SV150 annual ranking, it raked in more revenue than numbers two and three combined, and more profits than the four below it, taken together. List of the top 15 companies in the San Jose Mercury News SV150 The top 15 …
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Tuesday 15th April 2014 10:33 GMT SJG
Four years ago I switched my laptop to a Mac after various Windows machines since Windows 2000. My previous employer (last year) mandated I use a brand new Lenovo on Windows 7. I hated every minute and my new enlightened employer allows me to use my four year old Macbook Pro. They gave me a brand new Lenovo but it sits unopened in its box - I prefer the four year old Mac to a brand new Lenovo on W7.
At home I mainly run Linux Mint (I may go back to Ubunu in the next version) and it's my development platform of choice. I despise the Apple lock-in and I have Android phones and tablets and I haven't used itunes for many years since I left my iPod on a plane.
I also built my 14 year old daughter a windows based games machine about a year ago; much faster that our family shared iMac. Yet my wife and daughter still argue over who gets the iMac.
So, for all those semi-religious apple haters/lovers, please give it a rest. It's your money, go buy whatever you want, but please stop telling everyone else that they're idiots.
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Tuesday 15th April 2014 11:39 GMT Ted Treen
@SJG (or in praise of him)
"It's your money, go buy whatever you want, but please stop telling everyone else that they're idiots.
At last - a (very rare) comment of such total common sense and rationality that I feel SJG should be stuffed, mounted and preserved on the wall as an example of how to reason properly.
If you can use what you're comfortable with (any platform) then why should you face vituperative invective from those whose choice(s) might be otherwise?
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Tuesday 15th April 2014 12:19 GMT Valerion
>>well when you can take hardware that cost same as everyone else's and sell it at 2-300% mark up, yet people still buy it cause they are idiots. You will have insane profits, google may not have the insane $ but they are seen as a much better company as most their products are FREE.
As per the article:
Google profit margin: 22%
Apple profit margin: 21%
Theory fail.
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Monday 14th April 2014 19:34 GMT Glenn Amspaugh
Marketing!
But, but, but, I thought Apple was just a marketing company, peddling copycat designs from real companies like HP and Dell, for 3x the $$$, for similar shaped boxen! How could they make so much money over so many years when geeks have been telling the apple customers how stupid they are?
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Tuesday 15th April 2014 10:27 GMT Craig 2
On the subject of overpriced Apple:
Extended family has between them: iPads, iPod touch, iPhone 3GS, iPhone4, iPhone5S, Nexus 7, MotoG & Galaxy S4. I like Google's approach of good solid hardware with low cost, but I prefer the UI on Apple devices. (Even after de-cluttering Android) I definitely prefer family members using Apple devices because they cause far less support issues. The 3GS was recently handed down, wiped and setup from scratch and it's still a viable, usable phone for a light user.
Apple kit is expensively priced, but I don't think its that much overpriced.
I feel so dirty, I'm off to the corner to hang my head in shame.
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Tuesday 15th April 2014 13:38 GMT ColonelClaw
"According to the Merc, Apple paid $13.2bn in taxes, far more than Intel's $3bn, Google's $2.3bn, Cisco's $1.9bn, and HP's $1.5bn. In fact, Apple paid more in taxes than those companies combined, plus eBay and Oracle."
Ok, that is surprising. I wonder why? Public shaming actually worked for once? Whatever, it's good news.
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