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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Alighieri who wrote (446649)1/11/2009 9:57:46 AM
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Any consumer space business eventually becomes a penny pinching process and IBM was accustomed to 20% profits at the time.

AAPL's profit margin today is about twice what IBM's is.

AAPL has done a fantastic job of maintaining a closed environment while [finally] using its perceived technology advantage combined with some true innovation to actually turn its brand around.

Now, they've got people paying $2,000 for notebook computers when everyone else is selling them for $499.
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