Apple accounted for a full 20 percent of all U.S. consumer tech revenue in 2012

overpriced products and obvious revenue generation. i don't believe in NPD though. their survey questions can be answered on random basis by users, and therefore, the results can not be trusted.

Even if this is accurate, it wouldn't surprise me as the world is full of people that just follow what others are doing and moreover.........do things "just because" others did the same.

Basically 20% of the consumers are non-thinking sheeple according to the survey.

This is good news - for the people of Korea who build the container ships and the Chinese workers who fill them up for shipping to the US.
The good news for the US worker is that they don't have to load the ships with anything - except fresh air - for the return journey.

Originally posted by attar:

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This is good news - for the people of Korea who build the container ships and the Chinese workers who fill them up for shipping to the US.
The good news for the US worker is that they don't have to load the ships with anything - except fresh air - for the return journey.

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Drewry Shipping Consultants estimates that there were over 82 million port to port moves of empty TEUs worldwide in 2010. The Port of Los Angeles alone reported 831,370 empty TEU shipments during the first half of 2011, representing over 42% of their outbound container traffic. This should come as little surprise given the massive rift in the trade balance between the U.S. and China. According to PIERS data, U.S. imports from China reached nearly 4.1 million TEUs in the first half of 2011, while exports during the same period represented only 1.2 million TEUs, (of which the Port of Los Angeles handled approximately 27% of this export traffic)

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21432226

Note that it mentions that at any one time, 20% of all the containers floating around the world are empty.
Bloody fools too, eh?

"Apple, with just a few products" I can name 10... iPod classic, nano, shuffle, touch, iPad, mini, iPhone(many options still selling old ones), iMac+, macbook+, AppleTV ... Just saying... Apple is not a small company anymore. The iPod company has grown.

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Not to belabour the point and it ain't directly relevant to Apple (although most of us resent being represented as a fool - even if indirectly), look at item number 84.
Power generation equipment is the largest single item in value exported from the USA to China.
It's the second largest from China to the USA.
No prizes for figuring out that the ship bringing in $94.9 billion and returning with $10.8 billion is hauling 90% air.
Go to the link and add up the respective numbers - it's un-f***ing believable.

HTS # Commodity Description Volume
84 Power generation equipment 10.8

HTS# Commodity description Volume
84 Power generation equipment 94.9


The numbers are stunning;US workers are sending their paycheques to China with no quid pro quo - at least when you give your money to the pizza guy it circulates back through the local community.
https://www.uschina.org/statistics/tradetable.html

I feel the love.