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What?
---The part of Apple that makes computers has lost money for
some time, if you look carefully at the financial statements---

Care to post some evidence to back this up? All I see is several
straight quarters with double digit growths in revenue.

---The decline in market share is escalating. When you are the
only source of hardware for an operating system I think it is
prudent to be concerned when your market share is below
5%---

Again, who cares? The company is profitable. Also, you're
talking about machines with a long shelf-life, so isn't installed
base a more meaningful measure than marketshare (which only
covers units shipped over the most recent quarter)? If in quarter
1, you sell every single person in the world a computer, then in
quarter 2, your marketshare is going to drop drastically. Does
this mean you have a bad business?

And again, as a user, why should I care about marketshare? The
company is profitable and prosperous.

---Apple may well be a company in search of a product to sell
for a profit---

You mean Apple, the OEM with the highest profit margins in the
industry?
http://www.fool.com/community/pod/2002/020213.htm
"Apple has by far the highest gross profit margins among box
makers"
Posted by: tic swayback   Posted on: 07/13/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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IDG is playing local politics  mlindl | 07/12/04
Heh  KTLA | 07/12/04
Anachronism  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 07/12/04
Uhm, sure...  Qbt | 07/13/04
Explain what?  Immanuel Tranz-Mischen | 07/13/04
I would...  Richard Flude | 07/13/04
Jobs as usual  David Willis | 07/12/04
kill that cow  Rembrandt Pussyhorse | 07/13/04
Steve Jobs does have a vision  Anton Philidor | 07/13/04
Why does marketshare matter at all?  tic swayback | 07/13/04
Not so fast  drichards1953 | 07/13/04
What?  tic swayback | 07/13/04
Actual numbers prove you wrong  tic swayback | 07/13/04
tic, for once I agree with you!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/13/04
Right on  tic swayback | 07/13/04
I feel your pain  SOCAM | 07/13/04
Are you kidding me?  KOS-MOS | 07/13/04
MacWorld Boston...  BitTwiddler | 07/13/04
Reasons for the snub  tic swayback | 07/13/04
Macworld with no Macs? Ummm, yeah...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/13/04
Ax--I agree  drichards1953 | 07/13/04
One more reason..  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/13/04
Plenty of Macs but no Apple  tic swayback | 07/13/04
Poor wording on my part.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 07/13/04
IDG Snubs NY  Justin Powell | 07/13/04
Apple's absence  georgep_z | 07/13/04

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