01-20-2011, 04:16 PM
Lux Interior wrote:
[quote=jdc]
Theres no need to have a $6 Billion profit every quarter.
Absolutely. They need to make even more every quarter.
You do understand that AAPL is a business and a publicly traded company?
Let me re-phrase.
They could *probably* still make $6B if they lowered their prices by the $200-700 margin.
They might even make more $$$.
They only sold 4 million macs last quarter, compared to the 16.5 M iPhones and 7.3 M iPads (not counting Touches or iPods) -- the sales of actual macs do not make up that entire $6B profit.
so reducing prices on macs *might* reduce the profit a small percentage... but not the whole thing -- and since macs are now slightly cheaper, the affordability becomes less of an issue with = more people buying = made up profit.