Re: Beware of Next Something
mInvestor
5/15/2012 11:10:10 PM
@Value Hiker,
That's very useful info.
So it's not Apple, it's actually iPhone. No wonder more and more people pay attention to iPhone info.
Re: Beware of Next Something
Value Hiker
5/15/2012 12:01:33 PM
@mInvestor, you can find the information on the 10Q, (http://investor.apple.com/sec.cfm#filings) here is a excerpt from latest one:
"Net sales of iPhone and related products and services were 58% and 50% of the Company's total net sales for the second quarter of 2012 and 2011, respectively, and were 55% and 44% of the Company's total net sales during the first six months of 2012 and 2011, respectively.
The gross margin percentage in the second quarter of 2012 was 47.4% compared to 41.4% in the second quarter of 2011. The gross margin
percentage for the first six months of 2012 was 45.9% compared to 39.9% in the first six months of 2011. "
Apple doesn't give the profits margin information for each product line separately. But it is quite easy to figure out based on Gross margin. Industrial analysis shows to make an iPhone, Apple spends about $200, the iphone itself is sold for above $600, give iphone a gross margin above 66%, compared to the gross margin of all product line (47.4%), you know the iphone's proft margin is the highest one of all product lines. Industrial expert estimate the Gross Margin of iPhone is around 70%.
AT&T, Verizon, and Foxconn all know the super high profit margin of iphone, which is made partially at the expanse of themselves. They are angry about this fact.
Re: Beware of Next Something
mInvestor
5/15/2012 4:22:09 AM
@Value Hiker,
Apple got over half of its profits from iPhone? That's a surprise. I thought Apple's other products have been quite successful, like iMac, iPod and even iPad. Is it easy to check this out?
I can see how with "cloud applications" eventually the Microsoft document hegemony will be threatened but it just seems like ever effort in the past to unseat them has failed. Remember Oracle OpenOffice?'
Google docs is a handy bundle of applications but isn't it also a little disappointing -- just another one of those pet Google projects that doesn't quite take off. The bottom line is that most people still use Word and Excel.
RTF does save formating, but I have found it is not always consistant across each platform, but it will pretty much open in everything.
Isn't .rtf pretty omni-accessible? Yet also saves the formatting.
Thats always a safe bet, I just dont like to not be able to save formating. but .txt is the safest format if you dont know what application you are going to open it with.
TelecomFreq, I usually just save them as text files, so I can open them pretty much anywhere
One goood news about new Google Drive (replacing google doc) is it finally put back the offline access feature. I think the stupidiest thing Google ever did is to remove the offline access feature from Google Doc.
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