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mirgro on 26 March 2010
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TheRealMafoo said:
mirgro said:

Actually it's not even close to competing with Microsoft on its ground, the places where Microsoft has been dominant will remain Microsoft dominant for many many years to come, that includes being the richest.Somehow I don't see how apple will go from $3.3bil profit to $6.6bil profit anytime "soon." Mind you, I am taking the best quarter Apple has ever seen versus the first one where Microsoft recovered from a profit decline. I hate Microsoft as much as any tech person, but Apple is just infinitely worse.

This why it's good if Apple goes and burns in hell:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/mar/09/bild-iphone-app

For someone who sees death, doom, and decay in everything  anytime anyone does anything affecting people I would have imagined that something like that would majorly piss you off, but I guess you aren't too consistent and seem to chery pick issues to whine about.

http://www.tuaw.com/2010/02/08/microsoft-still-beats-apple-in-cash-and-investments-for-now/

Apple is about to pass MS with money in the bank (at 40 billion). With the iPad being an obvious success (they just ordered 3 million more screens from Samsung), Apple should do very well.

And why would a closed system piss me off? See, I am all about choices. If Apple does something I don't like, I sell my phone, and go get an Android. Simple free market working. What would suck, is if I had no choice at all ;)

And you think I see nothing but death, doom, and decay in everything? I think you have lost it.

Correct me if I am wrong, but it's profits that measure how successful and rich a company is, not how much money it can hoard up. I mean hell, if it's just about cash in laying around Microsoft can just cut its revenues to a minimum for a few quarters, where their current revenues will not uffer so much with Win7 and all, and they can completely leave Apple in the dust.

If I didn't know better, I'd say that the iPad will fail miserably since it doesn't cater to any crowd. But seeing how Apple fans will buy anything Steve Jobs shits out, even if its value is indeed shit, I can't argue confidently about whether it will succeed or not. I certainly hope not, since it does less tan what an iPhone can do, and infinitely less than a notebook, and all that for more money than buying an iPhone and a netbook.

Except people had no choice at all with the iPhone, and that's how Apple turned into assholes and why it's a closed program. I rememberseeing how Apple's business plan is just like Harley Davidson's back in the day. If you have a shit product then just make it seem a luxury item by restricting supply and raising the prices. Worked great for their PC line.

In the time I have been here I have seen many of your threads, and they are all about the health care, how you are moving, how something is going bankrupt, or how hings are going down the shitter, all spread over dozens of threads. I guess I was wrong and you just like to whine about things.