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10/16/09
10/16/09
That site has to just be a bottomless burn pit for dollars. #googlestock
10/16/09
The one money-maker they do have, though, is advertising. And apparently, it's a whopper. Which makes sense. Google gets tons of money each year from advertisers who enjoy their targeted, intelligent ads. Meanwhile, Google runs other services that boost their name and brand for pennies on the dollar of what they're ads bring in.
Good business isn't about minimizing losses, but maximizing gains. So long as they can keep up their superior ad targeting systems, they can burn through as much money as they have. And frequently do. #googlestock
10/16/09
If MS really did want to get a leg up rather than trying to drive Google into the ground, they'd be attempting to bridge the gap with Google and offering paid for time in their apps/sites - maybe even focus on great products rather than trying to take down your competitors. Then again, that'd be crazy. #googlestock
10/16/09
"By making your biggest products cash losers and your biggest money makers merely integrated into the product"
So they DO make money from their "cash losers" then??
"Essentially if someone like Microsoft actually does kill a free service of Google's they'll almost be doing them a favour."
Then how about their "biggest money makers merely integrated into the product" thing? It got killed too right?
The thing is, if some of Google's popular features die, most likely they're suffering bad rep like Yahoo and it'll severely affect they stock. #googlestock
10/16/09
yeah, but if the website(youtube) itself isn't bringing in any money at all, and they just take a loss on it, how is that good business? Even if other parts of google can pick up the slack for youtube it doesn't change the fact that youtube is a money pit.
just my opinion. I don't know how any of this stuff works haha. #googlestock
10/16/09
Let's say for my day job, I get paid $500/hour. Hey, I can dream can't I? Well, that amounts to $20k a week, or little over a million a year. On that kind of money, I can afford to pay for a nice house, all utilities, college tuition for the kids I probably have and still have some left over to sink into my dream DeLorean (If I'm gonna dream, I'm gonna make it rock). Sinking a few hundred to a thousand a week into that thing is hardly hurting my salary. It's a money pit, but it's one I can afford.
As another real world example, for the longest time, Sony was selling the Playstation 3 at a loss per unit. As in, every time you bought a PlayStation 3, Sony lost money, since it cost more to make them they were charging for it. Yet, they made enough profit on games and peripherals to more than make up for it. Nintendo has banked on this strategy for years, selling cheaper than average systems, and yanking money out of your nose through cheap plastic peripherals.
A single product can take a loss, even consistently, if the revenue streams of the company as a whole make up for it. Even if YouTube is losing money, until it threatens Google's huge ad revenue, it's existence is an asset....like as a place to put ads. ;-) #googlestock
10/17/09
Thus, even at launch every Wii unit sold made Nintendo money. And then Nintendo made even more money from all the games and addons.
10/17/09
The point is to not view any one product as an isolated revenue stream that must sustain itself. #googlestock
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06/05/09
Here's my first draft at Apple analysis:
With the iPhone Apple as ben verysuccessful bcause theymade a phone that people wan to use and liek to use. If they can keep this up they will kick some ass!
OK- what do you think?
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If I keep commenting on Gizmodo instead of working, I will run into problems.
06/05/09
I can only hope that he uses that line in other sectors.
If GM starts making cars people don't want, and starts losing buyers, then GM's strategy will run into problems.
If Madonna starts making albums people don't want, and starts losing listeners, then her strategy will run into problems.
If the GOP starts promoting political positions people don't want, and starts losing voters, then the Republicans' strategy will run into problems.
If the Church starts making dogma that people don't want, and starts losing worshippers, then the Church's strategy will run into problems.
06/05/09
Oh, wait, the number of followers I have doesn't make me money.
06/05/09
PS
GM has been doing it for years now.
06/05/09
Not funny.
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06/05/09
You're totally off base guy, and I saw no such thing.
06/05/09
These are extraordinarily shallow observations. There is no insight to any of it. That quote, though, took the cake because it is so generic and so basic. If you make things and people want to buy them, then you will not succeed.
This isn't snarking. It's getting caught trying to foist pablum as something remotely insightful.
06/05/09
You know what is douchebaggery, though? Posting insulting comments about an editor's writing style on a free blog as if you were somehow cheated of the money you paid to visit the site.
06/05/09
"Apple has had a nice rally because they put up very strong numbers, and at the end of the day it will still be all about numbers."
Yes, Apple's stock has performed well because Apple's products have sold well. And, investors like to invest in companies whose products sell well.
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I'M A BALLIPEDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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05/21/09
Also, analysts just need to stfu.
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