XPost: comp.sys.mac.advocacy   
   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2026-01-14 10:53, Joel W. Crump wrote:   
   > On 1/14/26 1:31 PM, Alan wrote:   
   >> 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?   
   >   
   >   
   > I'm actually trying to be civil, despite your vanity.   
      
   LOL!   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>>>> 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.   
   >   
   >   
   > It wasn't my claim.   
   That literally WAS your claim.   
      
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