tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post7731346763918431725..comments2024-01-25T15:09:03.714-08:00Comments on Whiskey's Place: Steve Jobs And The End of AppleWhiskeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-23228937392151972282011-08-29T22:00:23.741-07:002011-08-29T22:00:23.741-07:00I have an iPad 2 so I find twitter a lot more usef...I have an iPad 2 so I find twitter a lot more useful now using the twitterific app. Which just spit out this tweet. <br />http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/11/08/29/wikileaks_cables_depict_apple_fight_against_counterfeits_in_china.htmlJulesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-57442961083886425062011-08-29T10:36:53.044-07:002011-08-29T10:36:53.044-07:00Whiskey, perhaps some grist for your mill here.Whiskey, perhaps some grist for your mill <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/08/22/ios-vs-android-user-profile-infographic/" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Jeff Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18068021849429001560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-37818723699821751212011-08-29T05:45:00.686-07:002011-08-29T05:45:00.686-07:00Gray market knock-offs a threat to Apple? Have any...Gray market knock-offs a threat to Apple? Have any of you ever met an Apple customer? And the luxury brands I mentioned do not have the war chest to conduct a scorched earth campaign to keep gray market junk out of their lucrative markets. Apple does. <br /><br />BTW, I am a confirmed Apple hater - just a realistic one.Jeff Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18068021849429001560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-77170242649395360312011-08-28T21:54:17.713-07:002011-08-28T21:54:17.713-07:00Yeah I'll have to get on Twitter. I just hate ...Yeah I'll have to get on Twitter. I just hate the whole thing but need to get on it. Sigh.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-54167582105781319132011-08-28T17:25:28.725-07:002011-08-28T17:25:28.725-07:00Whiskey, I wish you had a twitter feed.Whiskey, I wish you had a twitter feed.Julesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-22220457107048464652011-08-27T14:27:57.877-07:002011-08-27T14:27:57.877-07:00Apple is not going to disappear. But it won't ...Apple is not going to disappear. But it won't get 35% profit margins for too much longer. Its not sustainable, neither the market for luxury status items OR holding off gray market exports is something that will go on forever.<br /><br />If the world is headed for a Japan-style slow/no growth economy, who can afford luxury goods? At best you're talking cheap Iphones (Apple is rumored to be coming out with one) or lots of Ipod shuffles instead of pricey Ipod touch models.<br /><br />Yes Coach, Armani, and Prada take Chinese and **EXPORT** gray market screwing, and it is seriously eroding margins and earnings, according to the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304791204576401534146929212.html" rel="nofollow">WSJ</a>. Suits against Target, by Coach, alleging sales of counterfeit merchandise, date back to 2007. Essentially the luxury goods are priced too high ($1,500 handbags?) and the same factories in China churning out the real thing can make the fakes.Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-83417331363059179062011-08-27T11:21:49.001-07:002011-08-27T11:21:49.001-07:00You think the day of reckoning is far off?
//BUIL...You think the day of reckoning is far off?<br /><br />//BUILD is in about two weeks, wait until you guys see what's been cooking.<br /><br />Let's just say Sinofsky got Windows to pull their shit together.<br /><br />The issue is always of profit margins. HP tried to turn itself into Apple and failed. Hardware is a losing game, because your margins are razor thin. Everyone wants to do "services", because you can make a lot more profit. <br /><br />That's why the US has become a service provider. Eventually, though you need to have stuff made and that is the crux of the issue.Nullpointerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09128266078618732620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-52115261284481724272011-08-27T10:04:17.537-07:002011-08-27T10:04:17.537-07:00I would think Apple can control its own fate until...I would think Apple can control its own fate until Microsoft products are as good as Apples...a day of reckoning that is,like Bill Gates' fixing of the schools,far far off into the future!DaFarmernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-38193512880285643232011-08-27T09:00:40.536-07:002011-08-27T09:00:40.536-07:00I recently read "Poorly Made in China", ...I recently read "Poorly Made in China", and I recommend it. It's not an overview of Chinese manufacturing, just one man's experiences working with Chinese manufacturers, mostly using examples from one factory. But it's an eye-opening introduction to the Chinese mentality.Thrasymachushttp://deconstructingleftism.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-27532920586571837452011-08-27T08:00:11.497-07:002011-08-27T08:00:11.497-07:00I don't know, man...you really think China was...I don't know, man...you really think China was holding off copying Apple's stuff out of fear of retaliation from Clinton, Gore, and Obama?<br /><br />I just don't see it. Clinton and Gore are now irrelevant windbags, and none of America's enemies have hesitated in giving Obama the finger and doing whatever they pleased.Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-38220359191291223982011-08-27T07:47:03.036-07:002011-08-27T07:47:03.036-07:00Coach, Armani, and Prada. They all take a Chinese ...<i>Coach, Armani, and Prada. They all take a Chinese style grey market screwing every day.</i><br /><br />Exactly.knightblasterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03042581488365314771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-39144453952584282172011-08-27T07:23:47.209-07:002011-08-27T07:23:47.209-07:00Jeff, I don't think that Whiskey is saying tha...Jeff, I don't think that Whiskey is saying that Apple is going to disappear, any more than Armani or Prada is. But he is saying that Apple's days as a "special" company and a monet printing machine are over, and there's a lot to indicate that he's right. As always, Whiskey has a lot of good points, once you knock off about 15% as hyperbole...<br /><br />TschaferAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-71484292001976558242011-08-27T06:38:39.836-07:002011-08-27T06:38:39.836-07:00Coach, Armani, and Prada. They all take a Chinese ...Coach, Armani, and Prada. They all take a Chinese style grey market screwing every day.Emery Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12680333153585144816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3893665144141962944.post-77760879197355480522011-08-27T05:15:28.342-07:002011-08-27T05:15:28.342-07:00Apple does not sell computers or phones. It sells ...Apple does not sell computers or phones. It sells a luxury status symbols. That was Jobs genius - to convert a tech company into something more akin to Coach, Armani, Prada. None of your analysis obtains.Jeff Burtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18068021849429001560noreply@blogger.com