XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-14 10:19, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 1/14/26 1:13 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> On 2026-01-14 09:35, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>> On 1/14/26 12:23 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>> On 2026-01-14 08:08, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   >>>>> On 1/14/26 2:00 AM, Alan wrote:   
   >>>>>> On 2026-01-13 21:53, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>>>>>> On Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:40:02 +1300, Your Name wrote:   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>> In fiscal year 2025, Apple's revenue by segment is as follows:   
   >>>>>>>>     - Mac generated $33.71 B in revenue,   
   >>>>>>>>       representing 8.1% of its total revenue.   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>> What would the unit sales be, though? Assuming an average selling   
   >>>>>>> price of, say, $3000, that translates into 11 million units for the   
   >>>>>>> year. If the average time a user keeps a machine is 3 years, that   
   >>>>>>> means the installed base is a bit over 30 million Macs.   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> You think the average selling price of a Mac is $3,000?   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>> LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> If you want real amounts of RAM and storage it might start   
   >>>>> approaching that.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> And that's a far cry from "average selling price"...   
   >>>>   
   >>>> ...or haven't you gotten to averages in your high school math class   
   >>>> yet?   
   >>>   
   >>> My calc 2 professor wanted me to assist people in math,   
   >>   
   >> Riiiiiiiight.   
   >   
   >   
   > See, you have to question something like that, you can't have a healthy   
   > discussion, yet *you* turn into the lecturer if someone breaks one of   
   > *your* rules.   
      
   Are you drunk right now?   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>> it's you who are the dummy, with your haughty attempts to lord over   
   >>> others, your need to make my age "young" explains this, you've lived   
   >>> an ordinary life where late 40s isn't that old, well I'm not claiming   
   >>> it is but it's older for me than it was for you, it's obvious.   
   >   
   >> And yet you cannot see the problem with supporting the contention that   
   >> the "average selling price" of a Mac is $3,000...   
   >>   
   >> ...with a statement that it "might start approaching" that figure.   
   >>   
   >> Your "calc 2 professor" would be so ashamed.   
   >   
   >   
   > Why do I need to address that claim?  It's obviously a lot more than   
   > most pay for a new Mac.  And yet Apple's actual prices are in the ballpark.   
   If it's "obviously a lot more than most pay"...   
      
   ...then it's "obviously" not the average and the average is "obviously"   
   "a lot" lower than that.   
      
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