Volume vs Profit.

I know it’s nice and easy to boast about sales, but only a fool looks at volume over profit.

Steve Balmer, July 11, 2011:

But we’re driving hard with just in the last year alone 350 million — 350 million — new PCs sold. That might compare with numbers from other guys that are in the 20 million range. Now, 20 is too much, but 350, last time I checked, is a lot more than 20.

Dina Blass for Bloomberg, April 29, 2011:

Microsoft Corp’s Windows sales slumped last quarter as the iPad crimped demand for consumer laptops, marking the first time in 20 years that the software maker reported a smaller quarterly profit than Apple Inc.

So, yes, 20 million is greater than 350 million because volume, my friends, does not equal profit.

Source: appleinsider.com

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