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Thread ID: 138823 2015-01-28 03:17:00 Some big techs are struggling while others are creaming it.. Webdevguy (17166) PC World Chat
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1393194 2015-01-28 05:00:00 You said it!
I've been sick of the slanted crap he spouts for ages Guess someone has to replace the Person whos name should not be mentioned without careful consideration (Winmacguy) ------ :devil:devil:devil Now those were some "interesting" posts :D

Some seem to forget ( or dont know) that Microsoft made a rather large investment in Apple years ago, to save them when Steve Jobs needed help
Apple because they were almost bankrupt at the time, so Steve announces a temporary partnership with Microsoft to a very hostile crowd. Bill Gates also makes an appearance.

MS are not stupid
Microsoft later sold the $150 million worth of Apple stock it purchased for a profit and sales of MacOffice continue to this day


Basically current reports can be read and presented different ways to suit the purpose.
wainuitech (129)
1393195 2015-01-28 05:00:00 The iPhone is still a laughing stock, always playing catchup with all others, copying their ideas and then having the cheek to market them as their own at an exorbitant cost:+1:
You really are a pro Apple, anti MS shill.:+1: again.
pcuser42 (130)
1393196 2015-01-28 08:34:00 Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger in 1983!

imgur.com
zqwerty (97)
1393197 2015-01-28 08:42:00 Steve Jobs giving IBM the finger in 1983!

Funnily enough Apple and IBM partnered recently to develop business oriented mobile apps: www.wsj.com
icow (15313)
1393198 2015-01-28 10:18:00 At least only one company sticks their customers with iCrap, although it has been said that company's customers richly deserve to be shafted. R2x1 (4628)
1393199 2015-01-28 18:28:00 Why feel sorry for IBM but not Microsoft? - the two are very similar in why they could be doing better than they are.
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And IBM started MS in a way...they asked for an OS, MS bought QDOS and then leased it and the rest is history.
Perhaps IBM should have done that instead.

Hindsight is a great thing.....
pctek (84)
1393200 2015-01-28 20:14:00 That is revenue, not profit. Profit is what counts.

Microsoft is providing the phone and the OS which is slightly unfamiliar territory for them.

no..it..isnt
It is gross margin .I'll wiki it for you :-)
"Gross margin is the difference between revenue and cost before accounting for certain other costs. Generally, it is calculated as the selling price of an item, less the cost of goods sold (production or acquisition costs, essentially)."

Lets not forget that if it wasnt for the ithings , Mac might have been bust buy now. They had years of running at a loss before the ithings saved them.
So are we in reality, talking about just another ph company :-)
1101 (13337)
1393201 2015-01-28 20:31:00 I would take the lumia 930 over an iphone 6 anyday Gobe1 (6290)
1393202 2015-01-28 21:42:00 I would take 2 bean tins and some string over any iPhone. gary67 (56)
1393203 2015-01-28 23:46:00 I have been given my brother's old iPhone3Gs, which is a big step up for me from older type cell phones. It is very easy to use for texting which I really like and is all I use it for as the lock-in to Apple services makes it useless for anything else, all I want to do is to add songs from my mp3 collections to the spare 15gig memory or so and play them with the headphones.

This is not possible unless I sign up for iTunes which I won't do as I don't want it on my computer. What a waste of good hardware.
zqwerty (97)
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