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Grimes on 21 April 2011
Zipper said:

I really want to understand this

How can Apple and other companies make so much ACTUAL money but Sony struggles? Sony made 88.205 billio in revenue in 2010 but their net income (the actual money they made, or lost if I'm correct) is  −$437 million? what is operating income? 

Why can't they make money considering how huge Sony is and that their involved not only in electronics but also the movies and music industry?

Have you ever heard the term "jack of all trades, master of none"?  I think their size works against them as much as it works for them. Sony is very unfocused company without a clear vision across their product lines.



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Zipper on 21 April 2011

I've heard people say that before.. but wasn't it the movie and music business that saved Sony's ass when the electronics side lost the company a lot of money? or so I've heard..

Where do you want them to cut? electronics was and alaways be a part of Sony and their one of the leading companies worldwide in both the movie and music industry, tho I think they are stronger in the music industry? Where market do you expect them to leave?



Mad55 on 21 April 2011

damn those numbers are indeed impressive im suprised so many people are buying the same phone.



megaman79 on 21 April 2011
famousringo said:

iPad sales are a little disappointing. Even after word of iPad unit numbers leaked out in their legal filing yesterday, it was thought that the numbers didn't include iPad 2 launch. Turns out they did.

Still, iPhone growth well over 100% and a gross margin back over 40% more than makes up for it.

Its just too big a device to carry round. Everyone assumes that its a golden egg again, but it is simply too big a device.



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benao87 on 21 April 2011
Grimes said:
homer said:

Iphone sales are unbelieveable....No, seriously, I do not think they are accurate at all.


It would be quite illegal for them to post false numbers. And it would be nearly impossible for them to get away with it even if they tried.


He may be referring to the typo, as its 18.65 million instead of billion.

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famousringo on 21 April 2011
megaman79 said:
famousringo said:

iPad sales are a little disappointing. Even after word of iPad unit numbers leaked out in their legal filing yesterday, it was thought that the numbers didn't include iPad 2 launch. Turns out they did.

Still, iPhone growth well over 100% and a gross margin back over 40% more than makes up for it.

Its just too big a device to carry round. Everyone assumes that its a golden egg again, but it is simply too big a device.


Nope. It's a supply problem, not a demand problem.

This is the low point of the iPad cycle, and it still shipped as well as the far more mature iPod Touch. iPad sellthrough for the quarter was actually over 5 million, so the dip in shipments had much to do with production getting retooled for the iPad 2.

Even on a disappointing report, the iPad clocked in over $2.5 billion revenue that wasn't in the year-ago quarter. How is that not a golden egg?



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Grimes on 21 April 2011
famousringo said:
megaman79 said:
famousringo said:

iPad sales are a little disappointing. Even after word of iPad unit numbers leaked out in their legal filing yesterday, it was thought that the numbers didn't include iPad 2 launch. Turns out they did.

Still, iPhone growth well over 100% and a gross margin back over 40% more than makes up for it.

Its just too big a device to carry round. Everyone assumes that its a golden egg again, but it is simply too big a device.


Nope. It's a supply problem, not a demand problem.

This is the low point of the iPad cycle, and it still shipped as well as the far more mature iPod Touch. iPad sellthrough for the quarter was actually over 5 million, so the dip in shipments had much to do with production getting retooled for the iPad 2.

Even on a disappointing report, the iPad clocked in over $2.5 billion revenue that wasn't in the year-ago quarter. How is that not a golden egg?


Exactly, supply was the problem. Everyone knew the iPad 2 was being released which slowed iPad 1 sales. The iPad 2 was only out a couple weeks during the quarter and was completely sold out and then some. The next quarter is going to have big iPad 2 numbers. Then the iPhone 5 will be released after that. And then they have the holiday quarter. Scary how much money they are going to make.



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Troll_Whisperer on 21 April 2011

That's one dollar per person on Earth in 3 months. Makes me kinda sick to think about it.



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