Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the first time in 20 years

Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by fredoliveira on Friday April 29, 2011 @12:34PM (#2497946)

I don't see what's misleading here. Doesn't your sentence basically mean the same thing the title does? As you said, microsoft's profits grew slower, and they had lower profits than apple did, which means the story title is far from misleading.

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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by benologist on Friday April 29, 2011 @12:45PM (#2497987)

MS didn't drop below Apple, Apple grew above MS. It's a pretty important distinction - drop means they declined, Apple is now making more money than Microsoft, and Microsoft is making more money than they used to too.

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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by protomyth on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:16PM (#2498124)

When describing standing in sports you don't say "X won less than Y so Y is ahead", you say "X dropped below Y in the standings". Most financial reporting is based on sports speech.

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Re:Microsoft's quarterly profit drops below Apple's for the ... by kenjackson on Friday April 29, 2011 @01:29PM (#2498173)

Standings are a relative measure. Profits are not. You can say MS dropped below Apple in the rankings of profits. Likewise, one would NOT say in sports that X dropped below Y in wins. You'd say that Y passed X in wins.

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