On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Philip Musyoki <pmusyoki@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey, I am just talking on the broader bigger picture perspective of things. Motorola Revenues: $10B, Apple Revenues: $ 108 B last year, this year around $ 200 B, around $ 5 B from Germany. World population: 7 B, Germany's population: 80 M.
There, you have them. The numbers.
Whatever Apple makes in Germany can be made cheaply by other suppliers in other countries. The wehrmacht republic, just like Europe, is become old and irrelevant.
Again, 2.5% of Apple's revenue (from your stat's) will come from Germany (one country), that's significant... That's Apple total production for around 1.5 weeks. It's significant... Europe is getting less significant, but don't make the same mistake about Germany, they are currently the dominant EU force http://www.economist.com/node/21543159 Germany's GDP is higher than all of Africa. Apple are in it for the money... Are things over for the EU? Probably, for Germany? I wouldn't count them out, like Russia, they are somehow re-inventing themselves. East Africa has a higher population than Germany, but we don't have money for iPhones, so in Germany per-capita GDP is 37,000 USD in Germany (roughly), 1,600 USD in Kenya from Wikipedia. Logic has it (Apple is in the premium product space) that on average, the Kenyan cannot afford an iPhone, while on average, the German can... In terms of pure sales, in the premium space, you go to where the money is, not where the numbers are... If you were talking about collapsing economies with dead manufacturing units like France/Italy/UK etc, I'd agree, but have a closer look at the German economy, it's very sustainable, their only risk is dwindling population... A simple example is their foray into renewable energy... http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/09/germany-continu... My point is simply that Germany is a little too significant to write off... It will take us at least 40 years to catch up, all factors remaining constant... -- Warm Regards, Phares Kaboro Kariuki