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Reading the chicken guts
For those who take stock in this sort of thing — that is stock prices — and how AVID must be going down if its stock is suffering… then what of Apple?
A new MacPro is not likely going to fire the imaginations of the gadget-frenzied, and so… really, what possibly could? No matter what our community does or says, we are not their customers. Those billions of dollars in sales are not coming from me, that’s for sure. Is Cupertino going to take a RiMming? Interesting that Microsoft is mentioned in this report, looked on as a better value under some qualifications, even though they are looked on as producing things that are not more exciting than blocks of solid metal. Losing half its stock price is not trivial — and the prognosis is that there is more (devaluation) to come.
Who said that whom the gods would destroy they first make great?
jPo
“I always pass on free advice — its never of any use to me” Oscar Wilde.
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Yep, the end is near for Apple
Steve Connor
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Apple’s stock may have been seriously overvalued. Their sales isn’t hurting. Their profitability isn’t hurting. On the computer side everything is declining but Apple is declining less.
On the smartphone side their profits continue to be healthy Keep in mind it’s profit/revenue, not market share that counts.
On the tablet side Apple’s profits are still healthy as well.
People are suspicious about the decline in parts orders though.Avid’s revenues are dropping. That’s a different story.
Dell is going private because the “stock game” actually impedes their ability to make the moves to right that problematic ship.
Stocks really don’t tell the whole story. They’re more about market confidence and speculation rather than just revenue and profit.
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[Craig Seeman] “Apple’s stock may have been seriously overvalued.”
Yes.
[Craig Seeman] “Their sales isn’t hurting. Their profitability isn’t hurting. On the computer side everything is declining but Apple is declining less.”
Apple just earned more profits on computers than the five biggest PC vendors combined, and narrowly missed out-profiting the entire rest of the industry:
https://www.asymco.com/2013/04/16/escaping-pcs/
Walter Soyka
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[Walter Soyka] “Apple just earned more profits on computers than the five biggest PC vendors combined, and narrowly missed out-profiting the entire rest of the industry:”
Oh but Apple doesn’t care about computers at all. They’re a phone maker, Haven’t you heard?
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Apple should divorce itself from the stock market as well. I don’t see what good it does them.
They get beaten up on rumours which get published because anti-Apple articles bring in page hits.
They get beaten up not because they’re not profitable, but because they miss profit targets from idiots who not only have no idea what they’re doing, but also potentially profit from Apple stock drops.
Apple’s stock goes down on record profits, but Amazon’s go up when they loose money. I think the stock market is as divorced from reality as Hollywood gossip is.
I wish I could be in as much “trouble” as Apple is.
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[Craig Seeman] “Oh but Apple doesn’t care about computers at all. They’re a phone maker, Haven’t you heard?”
I’ve never said they don’t care about computers. I’m sure they love selling MacBooks and iMacs!
More than anything, I think this shows that Apple is the only company in the industry that can maintain a reasonable margin.
Walter Soyka
Principal & Designer at Keen Live
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[Walter Soyka] “I’ve never said they don’t care about computers”
But there’s scores who insist exactly that.
[Walter Soyka] “More than anything, I think this shows that Apple is the only company in the industry that can maintain a reasonable margin.”
They’re doing an excellent job diversifying. The greater the diversity the greater than can sustain some risk in new product development.
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I guess we cold go back o the pre intel days where all they made were computers and those computers were slow compared to their PC counterparts.
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[Marcus Moore] “Apple should divorce itself from the stock market as well.”
Interesting but this has come up in some business circles.
Here’s on article on the problems involved with that.
https://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/04/17/taking_apple_private_makes_sense_but_nobody_has_the_money.htmland John Gruber’s post on that.
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Just because I noticed the relatively modest size compared to Blackmagic, AJA, Adobe, Avid, et al booths – here’s a show floor shot of the Microsoft presence at NAB 2013.
Big data?
Interesting.
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