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Apple orders 10-inch tablet displays and robust glass panels
- teej 17y agoIs this a legitimate insight into the possibility of an Apple tablet? I have seen so much tabloid reporting on it, it's hard for me to tell if "Foxconn is makin tablets!" is real news.
- elblanco 17y agoApple is probably just buying Crunchpads (warning humor).
- Herring 17y agoSo now we know it's not going to be an e-ink screen.
- roc 17y agoDid anyone honestly think Apple might put out a big iPod touch that was less capable and less responsive than an iPod touch?
- axod 17y agoAn Apple netbook would be far more commercially viable IMHO.
- rimantas 17y agoWhat's the margin on netbooks? So far Apple was way more interested in making money vs. market share.
- lallysingh 17y agoAgreed. They're making double-digit profits, and have ~91% (retail) market share of the most margin-heavy part of the market: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Mac-PC-Marketshare-macbook,8332.html http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Apple-Mac-PC-Marketshare-ma... Really, outside of pathetically-low-margin customer demand, why would apple make a netbook? Cheap, fairly-crappy laptops won't help the brand or image (to sell other stuff that has margin), and doesn't actually make (much) money on its own. Instead, they can focus their limited engineering team on stuff that makes lots more money. Aren't there a stack of business books saying that it's important to know when to say _no_ to distractions from your core business? How are netbooks anything but a distraction? PS: Apple's market cap is $191 bln @ $212/share.
- elai 17y agoWhy is apple considered a company with 'limited' engineering capacity while they're are one of the most profitable, largest companies in the entire world? And they don't even do the 'hard expensive stuff' that's capital intensive like semiconductor fabrication? Microsoft and Apple have a market cap ratio of just 1.5, yet microsoft engineers a significant greater amount of products and projects, and owns a very large percentage of the PC market.
- boucher 17y agoBecause Apple has about 10,000 non-retail employees, while Microsoft has about 90,000.