Quote Originally Posted by baja_yu View Post
Why the hell not? You mean they aren't making a profit on new iMacs?! So suddenly they realized they were charging too much and now they don't? Did you look at the link or tried to find more info on the subject for your self? In fact, their profit margin has been increasing constantly, year after year.
The iMac's have become more and more competitive over the years. I'm not saying that the profit today isn't similar to that six year old iMac only that you can't know based on that six year old iMac.
Again, it seems that Apple is researching and paying their employees at least twice as much as their competitors, because they have more than double profit margin of any of the competitors.
I don't even know what we're arguing about really. Is this right: you don't believe the BoM for the iPad or the iPhone is similar to other high end competitors? That's all I'm arguing anyway. I'm not sure why Apple has such high profits but it isn't because their phones or slates cost less to make.
Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker View Post


I just had to preserve that line. That full sentence has got to be one of the funniest I have seen on this site. I realize that it is an indication of the way technology is changing, but still....
Hahaha, it does sound funny. But it is handy, and you don't look weird talking to your phone in public.