So because PC world are rubbish that means PCs are rubbish?
You missed the point. The point was service levels, pile them high sell them cheap merchants like PC world don’t have the margin to offer a decent level of after sales service. I’m not saying all PC’s are rubbish I’m saying that I’d rather pay a premium and have an aesthetically pleasing product, that holds some resale value, is easy to live with and if I need support I can take it to an outlet (pre booked in advance) where the people know it inside out, get the problem resolved and carry on using it.
I downloaded OS X Lion last week, clicked three yes’s and after about half an hour a totally new OS is running. Everything was as it was left on Snow Leopard and I hadn’t lost a single file etc etc. Last time I used Windows it re-formatted the HD and then you had a totally blank PC after upgrading the OS. Or has Win7 copied everything else from Apple and now have that function???
Is that suppose to be a serious comment, or a joke ? I can’t figure it out.
If it was a serious comment, then perhaps you should know that China owns $1.16 trillion of US government debt.
If it was a joke, perhaps you should brush-up on your material.
Yes China owns $1.6trillion so who owns the other $14 trillion then??
Would that be the banks who are mainly government owned these days, who were all on the verge of bankruptcy??
They borrow from wealthy investors (Apple are an investment company like many conglomerates) who buy the debt in the form of bonds. China buy a lot of bonds as well as BP, ICI, Rio TInto to name a few. They can if they want borrow from the IMF but that is generally too expensive.
If it all goes tits up then the bonds are used to buy government assets and I’m sure even you can work out how borrowing money against an asset works when you can’t keep up the payments.
Wasn’t our on government looking to sell off the forests only a short while ago?? Why? Because their asset was going to become a liability…….