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Time:
08:37 EST/13:37 GMT | News Source:
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Posted By: Byron Hinson |
Not quite, but Apple Computer Inc. will try to gain more consumers by lowering their prices on their iMac product. The iMac, an all around product, for the advertising and graphic sector might become a bit less expensive during 2005. Apple wants to take a piece out of Microsoft's bussines since they feel their iPod product is doing so good at the moment and Microsoft's leading product: Windows is having a heap of security problems. Although Apple made no announcement at this time, word around the campfire is, Apple plans on selling $500 iMac's.
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#1 By
11888 (64.230.73.202)
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12/31/2004 5:24:30 PM
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Please stop feeding Parkker.
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#2 By
7711 (68.39.157.214)
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1/1/2005 1:06:13 AM
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#15: so instead, buy point upgrades for OSX every 3-6 months for $100+.......
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#3 By
9589 (66.26.231.95)
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1/1/2005 3:36:16 AM
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Indeed, this is a desperation move on the part of Crapple which has been bleeding iCraps for sometime.
Here are the unit sales per their SEC 10k filing ending their 2004 fiscal year (http://www.snl.com/Interactive/IR/4004205/2004_10K.pdf):
2002 1,301,000
-16%
2003 1,094,000
-16%
2004 916,000
Does anyone see a pattern here?
Crapple's desktops are hurtling toward oblivion. And, yet, still the BOD and shareholders keep j.o.BS, well, on the job? Go figure.
Profit margin at Crapple:3.3%; profit margin at Dell:6.6% (only IBM had a poorer profit margin on PC sales and we all now what they did with that division).
Does anyone see a pattern here?
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#4 By
7754 (65.27.87.2)
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1/2/2005 1:15:35 AM
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I'm not so sure this is a bad idea for Apple. It would be good for them to offer a machine at a price point that many people wouldn't consider exceeding for their computer budget. It don't think it will significantly affect their high-end sales, and a lot of folks buying within this price range may not appreciate the performance difference between one of these machines and a high-end G5 anyhow.
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#5 By
9589 (66.26.231.95)
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1/2/2005 11:32:19 PM
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#29. "A 2.8 Pentium 4 with feeble Intel integrated graphics . . ."
LOL - Tell that to the 100+ million people that bought Intel based computers over the last year - many of which were configured just as you mentioned and are the majority of the computers sold to corporations the world over (we bought 95,000 Dell Optiplexes with WinXP Pro and Office '03 Pro over the last two years configured exactly like that - terrific computer runs very realiably and as far as graphics are concerned are more than adequate for the typical knowledge worker).
ssfreitas, you are too funny! ha ha ha
Meanwhile, crapple has sold what 900,000 iCraps?
Whoa! Now tells us ssfreitas that all those consumers are just ignorant.
Hey, I know, crapple can go with another round of commercials telling people that Wintel sucks. That really worked. It only brought their market share down ANOTHER point. What are they are now, 1.8% of world market share.
ssfreitas, you are too funny! ha ha ha
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#6 By
7754 (216.160.8.41)
at
1/3/2005 3:11:17 PM
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Over half the nation voted for George Bush.... It's a stupid country.
Here, the metro area voted overwhelmingly for Kerry, and the suburbs voted overwhelmingly for Bush. Yet, the demographics for the suburbs show a higher average level of education attained (number of high school graduates, college graduates, etc.). This trend followed throughout the country.
Statements like yours are immature, and ironically reflect poorly on the intelligence of the person saying it more than anything. People say that kind of stuff when they don't get what they want. Then they become adults.
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