Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Unbalanced prices between USA and Europe
- Thread starter mma
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
- Status
In the last quarter 50% of Apple's revenue was Mac, and 25% iPod and 25% Retail/Software. Unfortunately no figures are given for segment-wise profits. (source)
They are selling 2 million Macs a quarter, which is more than ever and last Christmas their retail stores made more money per square foot than Tiffany. These are perceptions that have little to do with the iPod, especially if they are making a lot of their revenue from Macs.
So if people in the Netherlands perceive that Macs cost too much in the Netherlands, they won't buy them, sales will decrease, and the market value will decrease. Yes?
What is your point? I just stated that HP were there before Apple even existed and they are still there. Well, I didn't state that but Apple isn't the ONLY company that survived the early PC days. Djeez, you don't have to prove anything to me.
HP were in the Mini-Computer market in the 1970's these aren't the same thing. Look at this.
EDIT: In your previous post you implied that HP is the only company worth $100 billion dollars, sorry I misread your post.
Investors care about profits, they don't care about market share. Apple's Mac business is very profitable so its a large part of their value.
It's not about what customers perceive. It's about investors being convinced the company will go up or down.
It is unwise to quote web sources because I could do the same:
HP is acknowledged by Wired magazine as the producer of the world's first personal computer, in 1968, the Hewlett-Packard 9100A.[11] HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared." An engineering triumph at the time, the logic circuit was produced without any integrated circuits; the assembly of the CPU having been entirely executed in discrete components. With CRT display, magnetic-card storage, and printer, the price was around $5000.
You don't have to defend Apple on my account. Relax
It is unwise to quote web sources because I could do the same:
HP is acknowledged by Wired magazine as the producer of the world's first personal computer, in 1968, the Hewlett-Packard 9100A.[11] HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared." An engineering triumph at the time, the logic circuit was produced without any integrated circuits; the assembly of the CPU having been entirely executed in discrete components. With CRT display, magnetic-card storage, and printer, the price was around $5000.
You don't have to defend Apple on my account. Relax
This is true, I think you've beaten me
. I'm just arguing for the sake of it really, its fun sometimes.OK true, therefore Apples stock is mostly priced on potential. The iPod market is currently virtually saturated. So its not about that then.
This is the last post I'm making in this thread as Goodwatch says I'm getting worked up about it.
This is true, I think you've beaten me
OK true, therefore Apples stock is mostly priced on potential. The iPod market is currently virtually saturated. So its not about that then.
This is the last post I'm making in this thread as Goodwatch says I'm getting worked up about it.
Frans says: "it is way past you bed time anyway"
It's entirely about what customers perceive. The Nederlander that asked the question thinks he's paying too much for Apple hardware. Aapparently the majority of Europeans don't agree with him about market value of Apple products since Apple sales in Europe have grown by more than 30% each year over the last 3 years.
Frans says: "it is way past you bed time anyway"
Given that I was up until 5am on Thursday finishing some work, and I'm still fairly tired that is true.
Most of the soaring came from the iPod, but I think lately the price has increased mostly because of market share gains as Macs are seen now as Windows machines.
Given that I was up until 5am on Thursday finishing some work, and I'm still fairly tired that is true.
"This is the last post I'm making in this thread"
YOU are the Netherlander to whom I was referring...Is forum member MMA (the OP) a Dutchman (or woman). How do you know this?
https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/4594273/
If Apple is OK with that, I'm OK with that.
I don't care what you buy. As long as you keep sending money to Apple Inc. to help fund R&D for my computers, I'm happy.
- Status