Thread: What computer should I buy?

And Neil Young.

And Samuel L. Jackson.

And Clint Eastwood.

All fools?

Rather think I've made my point.

Originally Posted by thegent

All fools?

Rather think I've made my point.

I think that you are not quite "right in the head". Stick to sausages.

What is this obsession you have with sausages?

Originally Posted by thegent

All fools?

Rather think I've made my point.

Spot the professional software engineer amongst that lot....

And Steve Wozniak.

And Nick Park.

And Matt Groening.

And Eric Clapton.

And Fred Brooks - Troy should know of him, being a whizzo computer person 'n all.

Originally Posted by thegent

Over the past 4 years Apple has made an average net annual profit of over $35 billions.

indeed, milking money by selling underspecs machines to gullible fools like yourself

Originally Posted by thegent

What is this obsession you have with sausages?

I walked outside Gulliver's just three days ago and was determined not to enter because of the commotion you caused there with your sausages. Some farangs know how to behave properly.

Originally Posted by thegent

And Fred Brooks - Troy should know of him, being a whizzo computer person 'n all.

A quip or going senile...

I did like his comments about good software designers being rewarded...

....and Brooks' law.

And Gabriel Garcia Marquez did. Butterfly will have to look him up.

TheGent, you need to stop being Thai, just go for the iPad, the perfect machine for seniors like yourself

& Somchaina sitting at Starbuks doing the Icebucket Challenge...

Originally Posted by thegent

Over the past 4 years Apple has made an average net annual profit of over $35 billions.

Figure it out for yourself Pseud.

They buy very very cheap and sell very very expensive - thats how. The same way that the average market trader selling crap has a pocket full of cash.

^
So that's what CMN's doing these days.


Nevermind. Even Ikea can show you how advertising to the retarded can sell products.

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Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by thegent

Over the past 4 years Apple has made an average net annual profit of over $35 billions.

Figure it out for yourself Pseud.

They buy very very cheap and sell very very expensive - thats how. The same way that the average market trader selling crap has a pocket full of cash.

Steve Jobs, like Jesus, was a con artist, always was

distributing computing to the masses, like jesus did with bread

Originally Posted by Butterfly

Originally Posted by pseudolus

Originally Posted by thegent

Over the past 4 years Apple has made an average net annual profit of over $35 billions.

Figure it out for yourself Pseud.

They buy very very cheap and sell very very expensive - thats how. The same way that the average market trader selling crap has a pocket full of cash.

Steve Jobs, like Jesus, was a con artist, always was

distributing computing to the masses, like jesus did with bread

Really don't think so. An apt description of someone like say Alan Sugar (with his Amstrad empire back in the 70's/80's) perhaps, but Jobs was much more than that. He bound together innovative hardware with in-house software, so yes, it was 'straight out of the box/plug in and go' computing, but without comparable equivalents. I don't believe that there is a major electronics manufacturer anywhere that doesn't centre it's production in somewhere like China or similar. Costs of production are always geared to volume, so if Apple's per build unit costs are less than competitors, obviously their margins are going to be higher.

Where Apple have been particularly good is sustaining their brand identity and public belief in the quality of their products. Sony enjoyed a similar reputation for many years, but they became complacent, and now are struggling in many areas of their catalogue, having been overtaken by principally Korean competitors.

Well said, PAG. The problem is, these days inverse snobbery is rife and it's quite fashionable, particularly among frazzled geeks, the stupid and Belgians, to poo poo success and quality if it doesn't fit in with their narrow outlooks.

Ah well.