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The Problem Factory: Where Apple problems get manufactured
Macworld.com ^ | Dec 27, 2014 4:00 AM | The Macalope

Posted on 12/27/2014 11:07:37 PM PST by Swordmaker

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1 posted on 12/27/2014 11:07:37 PM PST by Swordmaker
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; Aliska; altair; ...
Why do so many pundits think Apple has a problem with Market Share? Is it a problem when Apple is taking home the Lion's Share of the profits (like nearly ALL of the profits)? The Macalope addresses this cunundrum, sort of. — PING!


Apple Market Share Problem Myth Ping!

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2 posted on 12/27/2014 11:10:16 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users contnue...)
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To: Swordmaker

Same reason the Windoze crowd claim there’re no viruses for OS X.

It can’t be the underlying superior technology, right?


3 posted on 12/28/2014 12:48:57 AM PST by CarmichaelPatriot
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To: Swordmaker
A wonderful tongue-in-cheek quote, (mis?)attributed to Albert Einstein:
There are only two things that are infinite.

One is The Universe.

The other is Human Stupidity.

And I'm not completely sure about The Universe.

People who gauge business success based on greater market share alone are fundamentally misguided. They're like someone who gauges progress toward a destination based on greater speed alone.

Speed is good, but it only results in progress if it's in the direction of the destination. If your greater speed is applied by going in circles, you're not getting closer to the destination. But if your lesser speed is applied consistently in the direction of the destination, you are making progress.

Market share alone is like going rapidly in circles. It's a low-end strategy. You sell lots of product, but you're not making a lot of profit.

Selling fewer units at much higher profit is a different business model, and as in Apple's case, it can be tremendously successful if your product is desired by people willing to pay your price. That is a high-end strategy. And it works very successfully.

Because to be long-term successful in a free market, you have to be making a profit. It's really quite simple to understand.

Smart business people understand this. 'Nuff said.

4 posted on 12/28/2014 1:22:15 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Swordmaker
I once heard a joke about a misguided businessman who sold lots of product, but at a slight loss. When someone asked him how he expected to stay in business when he was losing a little bit on each unit he sold, he replied:
"Sure, I lose a little on each unit. But I make it up in VOLUME!"
It's a joke.

Just like the people gauging success on market share alone, which is also a joke.

Real success = Profit per unit (times) number of units sold.

It's really quite simple. But some people prefer jokes, I guess.

5 posted on 12/28/2014 1:30:25 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: Swordmaker

“The best thing for Apple to do, though, is to keep doing what it’s been doing.”

What a great way to go out of business - provide stale bread for people to munch on.


6 posted on 12/28/2014 1:55:26 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists

Smug sells, until it doesn’t.


7 posted on 12/28/2014 2:47:42 AM PST by Leroy S. Mort (The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it ~ G Orwell)
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To: Up Yours Marxists; Swordmaker
“The best thing for Apple to do, though, is to keep doing what it’s been doing.” =SM

What a great way to go out of business - provide stale bread for people to munch on. -troll

Hahahahahahaaaaaa... Idjits say the darnedest things!!! Apple became the wealthiest company in the WORLD by doing the same again and again!!!

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8 posted on 12/28/2014 2:50:30 AM PST by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: WVKayaker

“Apple became the wealthiest company in the WORLD by doing the same again and again!!!”

The same held true for IBM. Perhaps you should go back and re-learn your history.


9 posted on 12/28/2014 2:53:21 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Leroy S. Mort

“Smug sells, until it doesn’t.”

Hear, Hear!


10 posted on 12/28/2014 3:00:15 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists; Swordmaker

IBM went down because of the secondary market that developed from Microsoft providing software to dozens (hundreds) of other vendors. Also, they were behind the curve that Apple created with the advent of the desktop (personal) computer. IBM failed to innovate, which is where Apple excels.

i don't think I need a history lesson. I have the facts! Maybe you want to look at those.


11 posted on 12/28/2014 3:10:46 AM PST by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: WVKayaker

Save your Apple porn for somebody who gives a damn.

You know very little about the demise of IBM. I owned stock in the company starting back in 1958. If Apple doesn’t get its head out of its keyster, it will follow its predecessors into the wastebasket of history.


12 posted on 12/28/2014 3:15:25 AM PST by Up Yours Marxists
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To: Up Yours Marxists
Save your Apple porn for somebody who gives a damn.

My uncle was Personnel Manager for the world office in NY. I inherited his stock, as I was his favorite nephew. I know plenty more than you give credit.

But, if you didn't give a damn, you would not have been so avid to post on this thread! HaHahahahahaaaaaa.

Apple's head is in the clouds, FRiend, and you can post all the BS you wish. I'm not worried about the IBM stock I converted to APPL... and have seen grow into a bonanza!


13 posted on 12/28/2014 3:50:15 AM PST by WVKayaker (Impeachment is the Constitution's answer for a derelict, incompetent president! -Sarah Palin 7/26/14)
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To: Swordmaker

I promise to stomp my ipad to bits and pieces if Apple gives up its Chinese slave labor model of manufacturing. This is a second Opium War upon the essence of Chinese civilization and is bringing a slave worker rebellion.

Read the chapter on China in this book to understand China’s corrupt model of economic growth that is doomed for failure and Apple along with it. A huge parasitic-capitalist class of princelings and their higher IQ henchman will bring down the Chinese economic model that is dazzling everyone with its 30 years long continuous growth.

The Apple economic model is to hitch a ride on parasites which never works out long term

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14 posted on 12/28/2014 3:55:26 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: WVKayaker

IBM failed to innovate, which is where Apple excels.
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There, you have it!! Innovation and quality of product is key. Keep building a better mousetrap, and people will buy it at a higher price because of innovation and quality. Those who use both Apple and Microsoft products understand the differences that set the two apart.


15 posted on 12/28/2014 4:07:10 AM PST by iontheball
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To: Leroy S. Mort
Smug sells, until it doesn’t.

Marketshare doesn't matter. Just ask Nokia.

Good grief this is a stupid thread. Friggin' cult of Apple.

16 posted on 12/28/2014 4:46:54 AM PST by Entrepreneur (In Hoc Signo Vinces)
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To: dennisw

I noticed that if I settle for the drugs made in India, for my thyroid and blood pressure meds, are super cheap, like $13 for Three months. The brand name meds made in USA cost me about $84 a Month. This is all After Insurance Payment. The ones made in India are inferior, the dosage and main ingredient are NOT correct. So I can settle for the cheap foreign meds that don’t do anything, or I can pay a LOT MORE and get American made drugs that do work. The same thing with MOST things we buy. We used to be able to have appliances and electronics repaired when they were made in America. Now they break down after less than a year, they used to work 20 years. And it is cheaper to buy some more cheap crap, than to have them repaired. Sure having cheap crap makes everything more affordable for everyone, but it is just cheap crap made by slave labor, or low wage workers....


17 posted on 12/28/2014 5:17:04 AM PST by buffyt ( Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke said President Barack Obama encouraged Ferguson RIOTS!!!!!)
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To: Leroy S. Mort
> Smug sells, until it doesn’t.

If all Apple was selling was "smug", they would have gone out of business years ago, or at least had to cut WAY back on production. Smug only sells for a little while, if excellent design, quality manufacturing, and helpful support are not all there also.

Apple's business model is not built on smug, it's built on designing high-end quality products and supporting them. That's not likely to earn them majority marketshare, which belongs to the bottom-feeders and mid-range vendors, but it obviously earns them the majority of the profit.

Their success has nothing to do with "smug". As long as they continue to push the innovation curve and make good products for the high end of the market, they'll do fine.

18 posted on 12/28/2014 7:27:59 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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To: dayglored
Apple's business model is not built on smug

Anybody remember that 1984 Superbowl commercial?

19 posted on 12/28/2014 7:35:22 AM PST by tacticalogic
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> Anybody remember that 1984 Superbowl commercial?

Sure, it was a poke at Big Blue (IBM, i.e. the IBM-PC) using Orwell's 1984 story of Big Brother. It's considered one of the greatest ads in history for a variety of reasons.

What about it?

20 posted on 12/28/2014 7:46:25 AM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is...sounding pretty good about now.)
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