XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy, misc.phone.mobile.iphone
-hh wrote:
...but then you implicitly claim you can quantify it.
He's also trying to be highly dramatic about it.
You're right about me trying to put Apple's surrender into perspective.
Remember, nobody spends _less_ than does Apple in their R&D spend, and even
in sheer dollar amounts, _plenty_ of companies spend more than does Apple.
But what Apple outspends everyone else in, by far, is propaganda.
Which is why I put the surrender cost in terms of Ford class carriers.
I'm speaking to morons like you and Alan Baker, who don't understand basic concepts the way a normal adult would... which is why I quantify the
surrender by Apple to Qualcomm as costing as much as a completely equipped
Ford class aircraft carrier, _including_ all the sophisticated avionics, airplanes, materiel, and personnel.
That's how much a teeny tiny 5G modem is worth to a company like Apple who would have gone out of business if they weren't able to produce a 5G iPhone when they did.
Apple knew that.
It's _why_ Apple surrendered to Qualcomm.
You iKooks don't own the adult cognitive skills to comprehend it though.
(All nospam can do is complain that Qualcomm can design & Apple can't.)
The USS Gerald Ford has gotten a lot of heat for being the most expensive carrier to date for the US ... $13B. Add fifty F35s for roughly $5B more and
then a few $B more in miscellaneous...call it $20B.
Meantime, Apple has sold over 2.2 billion iPhones to date.
War is partly about propaganda, and always has been partly about that.
Apple is the worlds' master at propaganda.
People who can't separate fact from bullshit _believe_ what Apple says.
But people who own adult cognitive skills understand what Apple is.
Apple is about a decade behind almost everyone in terms of design.
Yet Apple is well ahead of everyone in terms of marketing propaganda.
Simple division ... $20B/$2.2B ... means that the modem cost is under $10/unit.
Steve already showed that it's almost a hundred bucks alone for just the
X55 modem, "hh", which just proves again how _ignorant_ you iKooks really
are.
It's no longer shocking that none of you iKooks owns an IQ even remotely
close to normal, which is, after all, partly _why_ you're so strange.
You actually _believe_ Apple spends $10 per iPhone when just the one single part is almost a hundred bucks - which proves my point about you iKooks:
a. Your IQ is incredibly low
b. None of you have any education to speak of
c. And yet, you defend Apple to the death
Why?
I think I know why.
You iKooks gain most (if not all) of your self esteem from Apple ads.
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I may understand these low-IQ iKooks far better than they know themselves.
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