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• The problem I'm having with Google Voice is that for incoming calls, when I answer my cell phone, it hangs up the caller and sends them to voicemail, then I have to call the person back. I've already reported this but it doesn't look anywhere closer to being fixed, so right now this makes Google Voice useless for me. In reply to: "Google Voice and Gmail are sort of merging"

  September 10, 2009

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• Hahaha. How is it Google's fault that the clickthroughs didn't result in conversions? Sounds like either the ads drew the wrong kind of audience or the landing pages just weren't good enough. But it looks like Levitte got a bunch of free publicity out of the lawsuit, so he can drop it now and know he got his money's worth. In reply to: "Lawyer sues Google over unfruitful ads"

  July 16, 2008

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• Unfortunately since all of the links point back to the http site, you can't get past the home page. In reply to: "Amazon suffers U.S. outage on Friday"

  June 6, 2008

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• Gross vs. net
  You're talking about the difference of gross profit vs. net profit, which is all well and good. In that case don't forget to subtract the cost of packaging and shipping as well, since Apple is offering free shipping if you buy from their web site.
  
  The thing that the analyst forgot is that the gross profit isn't the difference between the cost of materials and retail price, it's the difference between the cost of manufacture (materials and labor if nothing else) and the *wholesale* price. It's fine if Apple is supposedly making 40% when they sell it on their web site, although I suspect that actual gross profit is significantly lower. But when Apple sells it through other retailers (Amazon, Micro Center, etc.) their profit margin will go down significantly because the retailers have to get their cut as well, which I'm guessing will be in the 20-30% range.

  February 25, 2005

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