Apple CEO: ‘Amazon Flaming didn’t dent our sales’
Published January 25, 2012 | 
If purchases of the successful-if-flawed Amazon Flaming bit into iPad sales during the holiday season, Apple CEO Tim Make didn’t see it.
“I looked at the data peculiarly in the US on a weekly basis subsequently Amazon launched the Kindle Fire, and in my reckon there wasn’t an obvious result on the [iPad sales] numbers,” Fix said analysts and reporters during a yell afterwards Apple declared its impressive first-quarter financial results on Tuesday.
When one analyst taken him if he received heard the speculation that some customers had looked at the $199 Fire, felt it wanting, then impressed up the price ladder to the $499-to-$829 iPad, Ready enunciated that, yes, he had discovered that theory, simply he discounted it.
“Whether that’s happening on a very, very large basis, I don’t know,” he said. “Again, my ain reckon is – look at our data in the US – there was no obvious change.”
But if the iPad didn’t tempt prospective purchasers dead from lower-priced fondleslabs, it did experience an upshot on the sales of another of Apple’s offerings: the Mac.
“There is cannibalization, clearly, of the Mac by the iPad,” he admitted – although with 5.2 million Macs sold during the quarter, a 26 per cent increase over the year-ago quarter, that issue was hardly fatal to Apple’s Mac Os X boxes.
Cook added that Apple believes that if anyone is suffering from the iPad’s success, it’s PC manufacturers. “And there’s many more of them to cannibalize,” he said, “and therefore we love that trend. We consider it’s swell for us.”
That said, the iPad is making inroads into traditionally strong Mac markets. In K-12 education, for example, Cook said that Apple sold doubly as many iPads equally Macs – though he didn’t supply a time frame. “Generally speaking,” he said, “education adopts new technologies evenhandedly slowly, thus that’s passably surprising.”
Cook characterized as “remarkable” the sale of over 55 million iPads since the “magical and revolutionary” Cupertinian fondleslab shipped in early April 2010.
iPad sales will proceed to grow, Fix said. “I clearly believe, and many others in the fellowship believe, that there will got a daytime when the tablet market, in units, is larger than the PC market,” citing IDC’s late research that rendered tablet sales experience already exceeded desktop-PC sales in the US.
And when Fix says tablet, he means iPad, and not “limited-function tablets and e-readers” that he relegated into a different category altogether. “There’s understandably customers that will buy those,” he said, “and I consider they’ll sell a fair routine of units, merely I don’t think that people who want an iPad will settle for a limited-function [device].”
As for competition from full-function tablets such as, say, the Motolola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tab, the less-than-concisely named Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, and their ilk, Fix was sanguine. “Y’know, last yr was supposed to be the year of the tablet,” he said. “I think virtually people would accord that it was the year of the iPad – for the instant year in a row.”
But when he was necessitated if the tablet market was simply a “two-horse race” between the iPad and Android-based devices, Cook did admit that not completely important players had yet joined that race.
“There’s a horse in Redmond that ever suits up, and ever runs, and will keep running,” he said. Merely no subject how many horses there will finally exist in that race, “We just want to stay forward and exist the lead one
Amazon’s Jungle Logic
Published December 14, 2011 | Books, interestingly enough, were excluded, just you could use your Amazon credit online to purchase other things that bookstores sell these days, similar music and DVDs. And, if you were scanning, say, the new Steve Jobs biography, you’d no uncertainty be informed that you were nigh to remuneration mode likewise much. I wondered what my author boosters made of altogether this, therefore I dashed away an e-mail to Scott Turow, the chairperson of the Authors Guild, and cc’ed Stephen King, Dennis Lehane, Andre Dubus III, Anita Shreve, Tom Perrotta and Ann Patchett.
These writers completely derive considerable income from Amazon’s book sales. But when the responses to my query started coming in it was realize Amazon’s program would find no defenders in our ranks.
“Scorched-earth capitalism” is how Dennis described it. “They don’t win unless they destroy their competition and then rub their noses in it.” Andre was outraged by Amazon’s attempt to act its customers into “Droid-packing” spies. Alike Dennis, he saw the movement as an unsubtle attempt to monopolize the market, the issue of which would finally be to “further devalue, as a cultural and human necessity, the book” itself.
Stephen indited “I love my Kindle” and notable that Amazon had done well by him in price of book sales. Simply he too considered the new strategy as both “invasive and unfair.” He believed that many would see the new0000000 promotion equally zippo more than comparison shopping on steroids simply that, in fact, it was “a bridge also far.”
Scott supplied lawyerly perspective: “The law has long been gain that stores do not invite the public in for wholly purposes. A retailer is not expected to dish equally a warming station for the homeless or a site for band practice. So it’s worth wondering whether it’s lawful for Amazon to encourage people to enter a store for the aim of gathering pricing info for Amazon and buying from the Internet giant, rather than the retailer. Lawful or not, it’s an illustration of Amazon’s bare-knuckles approach.”
Statements similar this will no uncertainty7777777 make us completely seem, to Amazon devotees, like a crew of privileged, holier-than-thou ingrates. Privileged I’ll grant them. Merely as we swapped e-mails it apace went realize that the actual author of our collective dismay was actually gratitude, not ingratitude. On my first book tour I was invited to Barbara’s Bookstore in Chicago. The employees optimistically laid up seven folding chairs, then occupied those chairmen themselves when nonentity pictured up for the reading.
Armed with such experiences, my author pals and I brought personally Amazon’s assault on the kinds of stores that hand-sold our books before anybody knew who we were, back before Amazon or the Internet itself existed. Equally Anita put it, losing independent bookstores would exist “akin to editing … a critical portion of our culture away of American life.”
As the owner of a new independent bookstore in Nashville, Ann may receive more to lose than the rest of us, thence I felt her calm, resigned response specially interesting. “There is no head in combat them or explaining to them that we should exist able to coexist civilly in the marketplace,” she indited me. “I don’t believe they care. I do believe it’s worthwhile explaining to customers that the lowest cost steer does not constantly represent the best deal. If you like travelling to a bookstore then it’s up to you to brook it. If you like reckoning the people in your community employed, if you think your metropolis needs a taxation base, if you desire to buy books from a person who reads, don’t utilisation Amazon.”
