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by dluan 3510 days ago
I wonder with the sheer number of these kinds of posts, is anyone at Apple panicking at all?
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Apple has, generally, been a more forward looking, long-term thinking company (outsider perspective) than many others. So I doubt it. They have a fair number of very profitable revenue streams. They have a large amount of money banked, they take out loans because it's cheaper to pay the interest than to lose out on the earnings of that money.

They have profits in the tens of billions of dollars for the past several years. Unless they suddenly see an actual mass exodus, rather than just poor sales of their current hardware, then there's no need for them to panic. Especially considering most (guess on my part, based on anecdata) of their users don't even buy new hardware that often. An Apple laptop easily lasts 4+ years, at least since I've been buying their hardware (circa 2006).

Panicking all the way to the bank.
"Après nous le déluge"
i wonder how much MSFT is paying for this native advertising
Anyone who isn't a little worried should be fired.