The Shrine

http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/12/apple- ... rocessors/



Dumbasses. Apple deserves all the flak they get for biting the hand that feeds it.

I hope to hell they switch to a less reliable manufacturer. The horror stories comin' out of the Sheeple will be very entertaining :-)

This is insane

Gotta love the high-tech business. Lawsuits are more common than holidays

Zeus wrote:Lawsuits are more common than holidays

More common than innovation, too :p

It sucks that costs of doing business (ie lawyer fees) are all baked into the prices we pay as consumers, too...

Flip wrote:It sucks that costs of doing business (ie lawyer fees) are all baked into the prices we pay as consumers, too...

Nope. It's all target pricing, my friend

I think when they come up with a target price there is a a crap ton of analysis done that includes overhead and admin costs of the company as a whole, i.e. legal fees and not just cost of materials and labor.

Flip wrote:I think when they come up with a target price there is a a crap ton of analysis done that includes overhead and admin costs of the company as a whole, i.e. legal fees and not just cost of materials and labor.

Yes, of course the analysis of costs is made. But if your managerial accounting classes taught you anything, it's that the price is set by the market (the target price) and the analysis of costs is whether or not to even enter the market as opposed to set the price. Basically, if it's worth it, you produce. If it's not, you say "fuck it, ain't worth it".

But one thing that's absolutely certain without a doubt: I don't give a fuck what your costs-to-market are, the market will determine the "value" of whatever it is you're offering. Sometimes you can set the price if you're first-to-market on a specific product (Apple with the iPhone and iPad come to mind) and maybe then the costs sorta come into play but even in those rare circumstances there are MANY other things that far supercede costs-to-produce when determining MSRP.