 NezmoThe name's Bond. James Bond.Premium,MVM
join:2004-11-10
Coppell, TX
kudos:1 | Might wanna fix that headline... Billion?  |
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| Correction 8.6 Billion is a lot of iPhones.... |
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 skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
join:2012-01-26
AA169|170
kudos:2
 ·Cox HSI
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3 edits | Lobbying should be outlawed We roll into a Senator's office with a prewritten law and a sack of money, we go to FPMITAP for bribery but it is biz as usual for corporations, environmental kooks and unions.
Lobbying should be called what it is, bribery and prosecuted as such.
And you don't have to curtail speech, even for corporations and unions. The solution is simple; for politicians, a minimum life sentence and a billion dollar fine (so their families can't benefit from their corruption) if they take money from a contributor and then don't exempt themselves from voting on those issues. If they take money from AT&T, they go to prison if they vote on anything telecom. With the benefit from bribery gone, the money would instantly dry up. |
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| 32 Billion in a quarter and... they still can't outpace Verizon in LTE deployment.. WTF are they doing with all that money?!? Building a moon base on the dark side of the moon?? |
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| Apple would really like AT&T.... 8.6 BILLION iPhones? Hehe... might want to make a few corrections there. They activated 8.6 billion - how many of those they sold we don't know as activations included unlocked phones that people bought Europe/Australia/Apple.com and used on AT&T as well as hand me downs (someone upgrading from iPhone 4s to iPhone 5 and gives their old phone to someone using another type of phone counts as 2 activations even though they were already on AT&T). |
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 dnoyeBFerrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI | reply to Nezmo
Re: Might wanna fix that headline... I can almost see the pinky finger! |
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 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | reply to TexasRebel
Re: 32 Billion in a quarter and... That has to be a typo I don't think there has been that many iPhones sold period. |
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 odogCable Centric Vendor BiasedPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-05
Atlanta, GA
kudos:9 | reply to Nezmo
Re: Might wanna fix that headline... Yeah... buy apple stock. |
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Re: Correction with that many iphones sold, you'd really have to wonder why Apple's stock price went down.... lol |
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Re: Might wanna fix that headline... that's only one iphone for every person on planet earth. AT&T can do better than that. :P |
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| End of phone subsidies? quote:
AT&T saw $17.6 billion in wireless revenues, but lost $3.9 billion, like Verizon, due to pension plans and handset subsidies.
Tmobile will soon stop handset subsidies, Sprint could be next. Will ATT/VZW follow? |
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| Not until they see how it works out for their competitors. |
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| at&t nothing but a shady bad all around corporation Why don't they sell the unprofitable areas that they pissed off, to some other business that is slightly better then att?
I got a nicely hand written letter yesterday from att, "our neighbors at" "so and so's address" yeah, go away att, you blew it a few months ago! I ain't coming back! |
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1 edit | reply to skeechan
Re: Lobbying should be outlawed I always love how you guys group unions with the trillion dollar corporate lobbyists, into the same group.
Contrary to popular RWer myth, less than 6.6% of workers today are in a union. Therefore, to sit here and insinuate that this 6.6% is apparently ruining it for everyone, let alone in the same group as a billion dollar industry lobbyist, is just baseless and absurd. |
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decifal
join:2007-03-10
Bon Aqua, TN
kudos:1 | really? How is it this many has been sold while apples stock crashs? |
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skeechanAi OtsukaholicPremium
join:2012-01-26
AA169|170
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Cox HSI
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3 edits | reply to Telco
Re: Lobbying should be outlawed Of course they're in the same group. All of these special interests claim to be benevolent while in actuality they're morally bankrupt bloodsucking parasites leaching money they didn't earn.
Meanwhile that 6.6% number you cite is only for the private sector. In the public sector, where they routinely fleece taxpayers and bankrupt governments, it's 35.9%.
Greedy special interests can all go F themselves. They have run out of everyone else's money. |
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Re: really? "It’s not that Apple isn’t making money. It made $13.1 billion last quarter. By some counts, that’s the largest non-oil-company quarterly profit ever."
»qz.com/47712/apple-earnings-per-···uidance/
Too close with estimates VS actual predictions? |
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 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA | AT&T vs Verizon I used to have AT&T but I switched to Verizon shortly after they launched the iPhone, and I think Verizon has better call quality. I also like the 4G LTE on Verizon. |
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Re: at&t nothing but a shady bad all around corporation Because no other company wants to buy those areas. |
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Re: Correction Karl was just using standard telco accounting practices. |
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