Apple intros free iPad engraving ahead of the holidays

I believe every Fortune 500 Company Exec making 10x more than you, your siblings, parents, and children will make in your lifetimes, combined, begs to differ.

Don’t be surprised troll.

Yeah, not a lot of people named Hackett.

@ Dara,

Revenue $20.34 Billion
Profit $4.31 Billion

Clearly not a lot of returns going on with their products.

We know though, no one is actually using the products they are buying.

I already called it ingenious Jarrett, it’s just one more way that Apple manages to extract value from its customer base.

It’s truly awesome.

PT Barnum used to do something similar.

@ Dara,

Strange, they keep opening stores. Those stores keep filing up with as many Non-Apple customers (who increasingly seem to be turning into Apple customers) as Apple customers. Each quarter they grow there business by roughly 60% (YOY).

Clown it all you want, spin it how ever you need to and make no mistake about it, you need to. Numbers don’t lie. Apple is completely crushing it quarter after quarter. It will take far more than the OHA, Nokia, Microsoft and even the deaths of Steve Jobs and Tim Cook to slow them down.

You talk about spinning numbers, but yet you feel the need to run out growth percentages and relative comparisons.

MS couldn’t grow their business 60% per quarter without ending global poverty and mandating computer literacy at the age of 5.

Nokia couldn’t grow their business 60% per quarter without somebody figuring out how a person could carry on two phone calls at once.

But Apple sells overpriced computers to people like yourself who just haven’t had netbooks explained to them properly (i.e. from within a black turtleneck).

Business is good but you should realize by now that you’re a rare bird Jarrett. Very profitable, but a limited resource.

@ Dara,

I think what you mean is that Microsoft couldn’t grow their Windows/Office business by 60% per quarter. Microsoft has other businesses that have little to no share of markets. Their products in those markets speak for themselves as to why they have little to no share.
There are other Avenues Microsoft could take to grow their business, though that journey will not be taken (see Ray Ozzy leaves Microsoft) because the company believes to heavily in what got them their success, regardless of what the current market is dictating.

Nokia could also grow their business, although that would mean that they would have to enter some other markets to do so. I agree with you here also though. Nokia, like Microsoft could not grow their business by entering new markets because there is little to no mindshare for there products.

You fourth paragraph(?) isn’t possible to respond to because it is an attack of character, which is on point with how much you are consumed with this particular company.

Apple went from selling computers, to selling MP3 players, to selling media, to selling phones, to selling Apps and Tablets. Apple continues to grow their business one industry at a time. Apple delivers a product and it turns out to be the right product. How do we know it is the right product? Because every other company on the planet tries (key word there) to put out a MeeTo follow-up.

You are a pretty well educated person but your lack for understanding business especially when the market(s) are changing and mindshare and quarterly results prove you to be incorrect, it makes you seem ignorant.

It would be like me arguing that Nokia doesn’t ship 300 million devices a year, they do. They also have ASP’s well under $100.

Or, me denying that Microsoft licenses their OS at a rate of 8.8-1 in comparison to their nearest competitor.

Apple profits in everything they do, no other company can say that in CE or Tech in general, none. Now, you can disagree with that and I would say that is also your right but it doesn’t change one thing….. it’s fact.

Where did I say that Apple wasn’t profitable or doing great business?

They bring last year’s technology at next years prices to people 5 years behind the curve.

That’s a great business model. You end up with starry eyed customers and a ton of money.

I’m just saying that you’re 5 years behind the curve and therefore have no credibility when you tell everyone how great Apple is compared to other stuff that you don’t really understand.

OMG, shut up already with all of the cutting and pasting of numbers you got from a Wiki, they’re not from the top of your head so stop!! It doesn’t make you look smart. You people will never admit when something with an Apple logo on it is a bad idea. So pathetically myopic. You can spit numbers out but you can’t come up with a reason as to why you bought an Apple product other than……”It’s an Apple”. That is just weak minded.

A. I really do not get where sexual orientation plays a role here.
suggesting that mindless

B. I have only ever presented facts in any and all of my torts or retorts.

C. If you don’t like a product just say that instead of suggesting that mindless people are buying then.

If being truthful about things puts people off, well, to bad. If you need to feel better by being lied to I suggest giving the parents a call.

Since when did “stole” meant license? I didn’t know Apple “stoled” names such as iphone and iOS.