CNBC: Apple may open mini stores in Targets

You'd do better to follow international business media.

1. The guts of all tech devices are "cheap Chinese junk." LMAO.

2. You have no idea what you are talking about. Not only does Apple's supply chain include hundreds of manufacturers, *some* parts from the device you used to post your comment came from FoxConn, as do most accessories, cables and peripheral parts.

3. A factory unlocked iPhone is smarter and portable to any carrier; that's how it is done outside the U.S. However, anyone who wastes money by locking themselves into a telecom contract isn't the brightest bulb and deserves what they get, regardless of device.

4. Apple earned $15 billion in revenue in 2010; $28 billion in 2011 ... from international consumers, not from U.S. buyers - which is an aging market of increasingly poor and uneducated consumers.

5. Truly smart consumers buy the best device, treat it well and then, if desiring to replace, sell it on eBay for close to what they paid for it. The only products that currently fit that bill come from Apple. Check out the price of a 3-year-old iPod Nano video ... it sells used for more than it did new. Also reselling well: the iPhone, iPad, or even a 10-year-old Mac.

6. Anything else is just ... an outdated and disposable toy that no one wants used and relatively few wanted new.

Source: http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/09/10079233-cnbc-apple-may-open-mini-stores-in-targets

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