appleinsider.com— Burglars smashed the front window of the Apple Inc.'s Saddle Creek retail store in Memphis, Tenn. Tuesday morning, making off with $25,000 worth of goods in less than a minute flat.
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It's cellphones man. When Apple only sold computers and iPods there weren't as many robberies. Thieves love cellphones - and the iPhone is drawing them in. Too bad they are too stupid to know that you have to activate the thing to get it to work.
It's unbelievable how quickly stolen goods can add up. Keep in mind though these are retail prices and not invoice prices. Still, quite a lot to make off with!The electronics retailer I work for lost $70,000 in digital still cameras, digital video cameras and iPod's. The majority of the loss was from the iPod's though, the boxes are so tiny you could fit dozens and dozens into a backpack. The digital cameras they took though were all the display ones we had. Great idea, no batteries, no charger and no accessories, practically useless. They cleverly left behind 3 BOXED laptops (not secured to anything) and a bulk stack of about 10 BOXED portable DVD players (not secured either). Seemed like they were trying to make things difficult for themselves. Anyway, a month and a half after that robbery they came back to hit the store up again. Cops had been keeping on the store and were so quick to react they practically followed the thieves in...
That would be at current market prices. There is still a group (as much as 95% if the statistics you quote are correct) that might want a Mac product. You're foolishly assuming the thieves would sell their loot at the same price as Apple does. Think about it this way: what does a new Mac Book Pro cost? $2500? What if someone approached you and said they would give you a new one for $2000? Or $1000? Or $1? The lower the price, the more buyers you'll get. The market share doesn't reflect the general public's interest in buying a product. It reflects the number of people that want to buy a product at its current price. Haven't you ever met someone that wanted a Mac but couldn't afford one? There's part of the other 95% right there for you.
agaudet, you are correct - Macs have security patches that usually deal with stuff like " quicktime player can be hacked to pop up a spam web site ".That's a heck of a lot less of a problem for me than the 30,000 known viruses and spyware that make use of Windows exploits that Microsoft leaves unpatched for up to 6 months before releasing a " hot fix " to address the security hole...Macs running OSX are way more secure than a Mac running Windows - I know : I run both OS and Windows lets me down time and time again ...
benkesslerSep 1, 2007
It's cellphones man. When Apple only sold computers and iPods there weren't as many robberies. Thieves love cellphones - and the iPhone is drawing them in. Too bad they are too stupid to know that you have to activate the thing to get it to work.
agaudetSep 1, 2007
actually Im not sure if you readbut you can unlock the iphoneso its not really useless if they unlock them:P
cysseroSep 1, 2007
It's unbelievable how quickly stolen goods can add up. Keep in mind though these are retail prices and not invoice prices. Still, quite a lot to make off with!The electronics retailer I work for lost $70,000 in digital still cameras, digital video cameras and iPod's. The majority of the loss was from the iPod's though, the boxes are so tiny you could fit dozens and dozens into a backpack. The digital cameras they took though were all the display ones we had. Great idea, no batteries, no charger and no accessories, practically useless. They cleverly left behind 3 BOXED laptops (not secured to anything) and a bulk stack of about 10 BOXED portable DVD players (not secured either). Seemed like they were trying to make things difficult for themselves. Anyway, a month and a half after that robbery they came back to hit the store up again. Cops had been keeping on the store and were so quick to react they practically followed the thieves in...
bedrockoSep 1, 2007
yeah.. i was expecting a picture of an actual wall of fire... now that would be cool.
bpatton53Sep 1, 2007
The Video of the Patton Computer Store Robbery is on youtube at <a class="user" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL-MIn3DsCI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vL-MIn3DsCI</a> same crooks seen in the Apple Computer Store Burglary in Germantown, TNWonder who will see this, know them, and report them?
xela321Sep 1, 2007
That would be at current market prices. There is still a group (as much as 95% if the statistics you quote are correct) that might want a Mac product. You're foolishly assuming the thieves would sell their loot at the same price as Apple does. Think about it this way: what does a new Mac Book Pro cost? $2500? What if someone approached you and said they would give you a new one for $2000? Or $1000? Or $1? The lower the price, the more buyers you'll get. The market share doesn't reflect the general public's interest in buying a product. It reflects the number of people that want to buy a product at its current price. Haven't you ever met someone that wanted a Mac but couldn't afford one? There's part of the other 95% right there for you.
mrbitchSep 2, 2007
agaudet, you are correct - Macs have security patches that usually deal with stuff like " quicktime player can be hacked to pop up a spam web site ".That's a heck of a lot less of a problem for me than the 30,000 known viruses and spyware that make use of Windows exploits that Microsoft leaves unpatched for up to 6 months before releasing a " hot fix " to address the security hole...Macs running OSX are way more secure than a Mac running Windows - I know : I run both OS and Windows lets me down time and time again ...