FlyerTon Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 They shifted 74 and a half million iPhone's in the three months to December. An iPhone 6 costs a reported $200 (£132) to make and shifts for $649 (£428) in the U.S. without a contract. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-31012410 A quarterly profit of $18 billion (£11.8 bn) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newbornbairn Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I'd like to know how it costs a minimum of £100 more to buy in the UK. Same product, same cost of production, transport costs won't be much different but it sells here for between £540 and £790. US mark-up is 220% UK mark-up is 300% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I'd like to know how it costs a minimum of £100 more to buy in the UK. Same product, same cost of production, transport costs won't be much different but it sells here for between £540 and £790. US mark-up is 220% UK mark-up is 300% VAT at 20% will be the lion's share I reckon - there's probably an import tax as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WullieBroonIsGod Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Emperor's new clothes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Nederlander Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I don't think I've ever bought an Apple product and the I-Phone I was given at work was a frustrating thing to use compared with the Samsung I had at 'home' I just don't get the attraction ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bullywee Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 STEVE JOBS IS GOD!!1!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McB Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I don't think I've ever bought an Apple product and the I-Phone I was given at work was a frustrating thing to use compared with the Samsung I had at 'home' I just don't get the attraction ! Apple have positioned themselves as something other than a mega corp that rips you off. Clever advertising and stupid consumers really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
throbber Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Are they bigger than Microsoft now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WullieBroonIsGod Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 How much? The most expensive clothes you can imagine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Funky Nosejob Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 I can remember when Microsoft were guilty of all the world's evil and Apple were considered the caring, good guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lyle Lanley Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 iPhone is the greatest phone ever made Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarusQPFC Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Disgusting company Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 They can cram it since they withdrew the 160GB iPod Classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 A quarterly profit of $18 billion (£11.8 bn) Ah, that's obviously an 'American billion' so that's really only £11,800 million. Meh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetterlund Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gareth_Glasgow Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 MORE LIKE CR-APPLE haahahahaha am i rite??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ya Bezzer! Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 If you go to libraries or coffee houses you will see loads of people with MacBook Pros staring out the window doing absolutely f**k all. They might as well bought a house brick and saved one and a half grand. What Apple is great at is selling people the idea that they are creatives, da Vinci's of the 21st century, when actually they are the sort of people who dribble while looking at a pigeon sitting on some guttering on the flats across the street. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Joseph Stalin Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 Lyk if u think appel shood swap wages with nurses and soljers!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsr Posted January 28, 2015 Share Posted January 28, 2015 The Apple shop in Newcastle has ludicrously long queues whenever they hawk some new piece of overpriced tat. I've seen whole lines of people queued right from outside the shop, along the lengthy corridor to the stairs leading out of the shopping arcade, down the stairs and then outside on to the street. This is at about 8.30am on my way to work before the shop is even open. Are the people at the back really expecting there to be anything left when they get there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cardinal Richelieu Posted January 29, 2015 Share Posted January 29, 2015 I know it's the Daily Mail but here's an article with two opposing arguments in the Apple debate. And how laughably one-sided it is. The chap points out how Apple are tax-dodging, manipulative robbing b*****ds, whereas the lassie points out their products look nice and usually work well. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2930649/Evil-tax-avoiding-behemoth-force-good-ALEX-BRUMMER-SARAH-VINE-ten-reasons-love-hate-Apple-brand.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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