A year ago, Apple sales had reached a low point. But in the past three months, ending December 27th their net profit raised 38% selling a total of 74.5 million iPhones, and making $18 billion profit from all of their sales. It was quoted as one of the “biggest quarterly profit ever to be reported by a publicly traded company”. iPad sales however had decreases 18% from last year’s sales. It is thought that this happened due to the larger iPhones coming out. Also, the majority of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus’s, were bought from Android users, only about 15% of the iPhones sold were from previous iPhone users. Never in history has a profit this large been recorded by a publicly traded company. However, the drop in iPad sales due to the new iPhone release does relate to history. iPads lost buyers because iPhones were becoming as big and could do everything an iPad could do, so why not just buy an iPhone 6 plus? Does this sound like anything in history? If you imagine the iPads as slaves and the iPhone 6 and 6 plus as the cotton gin then this is very similar. Slaves have been used for ages, and in America, a big use for slaves was picking cotton. However, when the cotton gin(iPhone 6/6 plus) was invented, the need for slaves(iPads) decreased. This later led to the abolition of slavery, after the Civil War of course. Will iPads eventually be abolished? Or will there have to be a war for that to happen?
From the early 2000's to just a minutes ago, thousands of people have been working on new prosthetic technology that allows others with missing limbs to live the same lives as the rest of us. Recently with the new 3D printer technology, creating high-tech prosthetic limbs has never been easier. Recently across seas in Britain, there was a child around the age of 8 was able to meet with a private company that was able to fit her with a brand new hand that allowed her to not only be able to ride her scooter again, but also to live a better life compared to one where she was unable to have two hands. The unnamed private company was able to use 3D printing technology to create a new limb, which was able to help a little kid. The new technology brought to modern day is more advanced than the ignorant ones may think. Compared to the past days during the Civil War, American soldiers didn't have the technology we use today. Back in the war, any form of injury or missing limb would be an amputation of that limb. The difference between then and now rests in the difference of technology. The similarity would be just that they had metal artificial legs that had just about nothing in common with a standard leg. The prosthetic legs today have things like nerve connections for mind control ability, extra comfort with plastic-metal combination, and the overall ability of the limb. The Civil War times weren't as focused on their medical technology as they were on winning the war, so the artificial limbs were really bad for the people that needed them the most. Overall, the new advancements in technology today make the Civil war prosthetics look like a joke, as they are.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/can-apple-keep-up-its-growth-spurt-1422493028
ReplyDeletehttp://www.wsj.com/articles/staggering-iphone-demand-helps-lift-apples-quarterly-profit-by-38-1422394222?tesla=y
http://nypost.com/2015/01/27/iphone-6-sales-boost-apple-profits-to-stratospheric-levels/
A year ago, Apple sales had reached a low point. But in the past three months, ending December 27th their net profit raised 38% selling a total of 74.5 million iPhones, and making $18 billion profit from all of their sales. It was quoted as one of the “biggest quarterly profit ever to be reported by a publicly traded company”. iPad sales however had decreases 18% from last year’s sales. It is thought that this happened due to the larger iPhones coming out. Also, the majority of iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus’s, were bought from Android users, only about 15% of the iPhones sold were from previous iPhone users.
Never in history has a profit this large been recorded by a publicly traded company. However, the drop in iPad sales due to the new iPhone release does relate to history. iPads lost buyers because iPhones were becoming as big and could do everything an iPad could do, so why not just buy an iPhone 6 plus? Does this sound like anything in history? If you imagine the iPads as slaves and the iPhone 6 and 6 plus as the cotton gin then this is very similar. Slaves have been used for ages, and in America, a big use for slaves was picking cotton. However, when the cotton gin(iPhone 6/6 plus) was invented, the need for slaves(iPads) decreased. This later led to the abolition of slavery, after the Civil War of course. Will iPads eventually be abolished? Or will there have to be a war for that to happen?
Evan Marrone
http://www.nptelegraph.com/news/local_news/help-in-healing/article_3e6f5241-6a55-53ee-ac3c-9dd78ffb9cf3.html
ReplyDeletehttp://www.franchiseherald.com/articles/20776/20150120/new-prosthetic-technology-brings-hope-disabled-athletes-ottobocks-genium-x3.htm
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/3-d-printing-technologies-help-advance-prosthetics-children-n285306
From the early 2000's to just a minutes ago, thousands of people have been working on new prosthetic technology that allows others with missing limbs to live the same lives as the rest of us. Recently with the new 3D printer technology, creating high-tech prosthetic limbs has never been easier. Recently across seas in Britain, there was a child around the age of 8 was able to meet with a private company that was able to fit her with a brand new hand that allowed her to not only be able to ride her scooter again, but also to live a better life compared to one where she was unable to have two hands. The unnamed private company was able to use 3D printing technology to create a new limb, which was able to help a little kid. The new technology brought to modern day is more advanced than the ignorant ones may think.
Compared to the past days during the Civil War, American soldiers didn't have the technology we use today. Back in the war, any form of injury or missing limb would be an amputation of that limb. The difference between then and now rests in the difference of technology. The similarity would be just that they had metal artificial legs that had just about nothing in common with a standard leg. The prosthetic legs today have things like nerve connections for mind control ability, extra comfort with plastic-metal combination, and the overall ability of the limb. The Civil War times weren't as focused on their medical technology as they were on winning the war, so the artificial limbs were really bad for the people that needed them the most. Overall, the new advancements in technology today make the Civil war prosthetics look like a joke, as they are.
Brandon Formica