Re: [Avid-L2] OT: SHOW ME THE MONEY!

Maybe not fair, but certainly fun.

Here's another way to look at it that will probably piss off Jimmy.

If you laid all the iPhones sold in the last 3 months end to end, they
could circle the earth, reach the moon and come back again.

Inspiring, till you think about 8.5 million cool little black
cardboard boxes that may never be recycled. :-(

RT

On Apr 20, 2010, at 3:26 PM, avidrhl@gmail.com wrote:

> I'm no financial wiz, but is it really fair to compare the two
> companies at
> this level?
>
> Avid doesn't make phones or music players or operating systems or
> little
> white headphones.
>
> Wait, they do make headphones
> (http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/IE30.html) and they sound
> pretty
> damn good.
>
> --Rob Lawson, ACSR, CBS News
>
> On Apr 20, 2010 8:36pm, RT <huipro@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> > $ CHA-CHING $
>
> > A mere $13.5 BILLION in sales for a tidy profit of $3.07 BILLION.
>
> > For a single, non-holiday quarter. Not counting iPad sales.
>
> > To offer a little perspective, Apple net profit in this quarter
> alone is
>
> > 5X what Avid grossed in sales for all of last year.
>
> > And they now have close to $42 BILLION in the piggybank. That's
>
> > untapped potential. Meanwhile, Avid drained around 27% of their cash
>
> > reserves in 2009.
>
> > http://9to5mac.com/chart-apples-growth-343545
>
> > Stay tuned for Tewksbury's response,..
>
> > RT
>
> > RT wrote:
>
> > >
>
> > >
>
> > > Apple and Avid report earnings this week. Webcasts worth watching.
>
> > >
>
> > > APPLE
>
> > > Tuesday April 20, 2010 @ 2:00pm PT/5:00pm ET
>
> > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq210/
>
> > > http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/earningsq210/>
>
> > >
>
> > > AVID
>
> > > Thursday Apr 22, 2010 @ 4:30 PM ET
>
> > > http://ir.avid.com/events.cfm http://ir.avid.com/events.cfm>
>
> > >
>
> > > If you didn't dispose of all your income in Vegas last week, you
> might
>
> > > even get in the game.
>
> > >
>
> > > RT
>
> > >
>
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> > >
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> > >
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