i could see them partnering with (my choice panasonic) with it built in and still offer the box. But i don't see the point, whats next a coffee maker then docks your iphone and you can control the coffeemaker via an app.
With all due respect the talk about the retail margins doesn't really mean anything in order for Apple to make a TV. Like I showed you with my links the profit margins for manufacture companies are very low due the competition and HDTV prices falling year after year.
Apple historically charge a premium for their products. So I have hard time thinking they will jump into this market because of it. Like I showed you Pioneer made the best sets out there, charged a premium and could not stay in business.
That said what Best Buy/Frys/Future Shop/etc. chargers for it and how much money they make is meaningless for this discussion.
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Aelalfy, your argument about profit margin being a reason as to why Apple should enter the television market is flawed. You know what has larger profit margins than televisions? Pizza! Should Apple start buying up pizza chains? Of course not. The problems with televisions, like pizza, is that competition reduces profit margins. For every television that your friends at Best Buy have sitting on a shelf, there are 50+ online and brick-and-mortar retailers who are prepared to undersell them. So, while Best Buy may stick to their guns and sell their televisions at a high profit margin, they're still not doing as well in that business as they should. They need to make 100% on each TV because they're losing countless sales to other retailers selling them at a 50% markup.
That being said, Apple has never played in these competitive arenas. This is the primary reason as to why they've never released a laptop/netbook in the $500 range. It's simply too competitive an environment to make money. Apple doesn't deal in commodity items, which is why you'll never see an Apple television.
1) How is your store doing? Is it running well?
And for the above guy "gugy" thanks for starting your post with a polite comment, this is how its suppose to be.
YOU DIDN'T READ ANYTHING I SAID.
YOU DIDN'T READ ANYTHING I SAID.
Just finished reading this entire thread. Is this guy always such a zealot and as incredibly rude.
But I'm a real Aerospace Engineer in Canada and have an idea of what I'm talking about. I don't usually comment on things unless I'm sure or can prove otherwise.
1) I didn't continue to run my mouth, when I said that I want to see a bestbuy manager, he was not a bestbuy manager, read the whole post
I want to see a BESTBUY employee tell me otherwise
being a real aerospace engineer doesn't qualify him in any way to know more about this subject than me
Wow when did this turn into a gangbang?
Lol Anyways, I was saying I'm an aerospace engineer to say that I have an idea about electronics. I'm also starting my MBA so yiou tell me.
Also for that electric engineer, if you thought of of your little circuit board and thought about the business side of that market, you would realize the potential profit involved. part of aeropsace engineering are many courses in economics and business so I do study these things and thats why pointed to my education as a backup. Also I told you that I have sources at futureshop aka bestbuy and that they say its their most profitable market.
What else am I missing? no one here from bestbuy told me otherwise. someone from an "audio/video" store said he was the manager but never proved it nor even name the "audio/video" store he manages.
Anyways since this is a never ending topic, I think we should all put an end to it.
Oh and not cool to gangbang me because I discussed a topic in detail.
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AE
Gangbang? Might not have used that word to describe what you brought upon yourself. This is more humor now than anything. Could you post more about your education and careers?
You know a lot about a topic, but everyone seems to disagree with you. Somehow that logic works for you.
I have a degree in electrical engineering from a top 50 engineering school, since you asked. And yes, I work in a grocery store. How long did it take you to wade through my old posts to find that? I left engineering a few years ago, and I'm a manager in a great company, I make nearly 6 figures, and I'm not unhappy like I was in engineering. I don't get it, were you trying to make fun of me? I'm quite happy where I am.
Your education means nothing to this topic. Your only qualification is that you "know a Best Buy manager"? We all do. You call others rude, yet you have been the most rude to anyone else here. This thread should be locked, because you will likely continue to embarrass yourself.
You've been proven wrong multiple times in this thread, but then continue to discredit those who prove you wrong. Also, I think you missed the part where I left engineering voluntarily. Had nothing to do with demand. I make 40% more now than as an engineer. I regret nothing.
You win good sir. You bested me in the most difficult of educational challenges. Excelsior!
Its not about how much you make, its about what you love to dobut it probably had to do with demand
Again, my choice to leave engineering. It did have to do with demand, I demanded a better career, and now I have one. Your attacks are subtle, yet accomplish nothing. Yawn.
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Then people will be forced into size ,specs, ect. Then the price and the fact that they would need a new overpriced tv every year would kill it. Boxes are the way to go.