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by: Gonzalo May 23, 2009 | about: AAPL    
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    Apple's next product, and all that follow, must only live up to Apple's expectations. We can only hope we like what they do.

    Trying to live up the wants posted in everyone's blog, and "analyst's" news, is ridiculous. They feed on each other's fantasies, beyond all reason.

    This is fine for a newsgroup discussion, but this was posted to a REAL financial news, group.
    May 23 07:14 PM | Link | Reply
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    I hate to come off as a snob, but I can't make it past the first sentence with all the mistakes in it. Here's what I saw when I got to this page:

    "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced aout bApple’s (AAPL) capabilities for continued growth without Steve Jobs presence."

    Here's how it SHOULD read:

    "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced about Apple’s (AAPL) capabilities for continued growth without Steve Jobs' presence."

    A spelling error AND a grammatical error in the opening sentence of an article is never a good sign. How does something like this get linked to Yahoo! Financial News?
    May 23 07:34 PM | Link | Reply
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    RE: "... it’s very difficult to make successful products every year (think about Microsoft (MSFT), how many successful products has it launched in the past 10 years?)..."

    REPLY
    Microsoft never invented anything. Its products were copied, workarounds, or acquisitions from other companies.


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    RE: "... If the firm doesn’t meet expectations in the next releases..."

    REPLY:
    Apple has a pipeline of products and services going out way into the future. Steve Jobs' absence of a few months will have NO effect on Apple's delivery into the marketplace.

    We are only just beginning to see Apple's influence on the world.
    May 23 07:43 PM | Link | Reply
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    You must be new to Apple. This is a perennial issue. Someplace there was a funny site about the ten stages of an Apple product starting with rampant rumors, fake images and such leading up to the eventual product release followed by the let down that the product wasn't a Star Trek phaser then eventually facing up to the fact that the product wasn't all that bad then the rumors started up again for the next release.
    May 23 09:53 PM | Link | Reply
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    Apple should NOT worry about "expectations" set by Bloggers, media or even fans. Apple should focus on its, thus far, very successful road map and continue to execute.

    A product does not sell based on expectations, it sells based on whether it addresses real needs, solves real problems and runs reliably and performs reasonably whenever it is needed.

    Any business that operates based on meeting expectations of someone outside the business is doomed to fail.

    May 23 09:55 PM | Link | Reply
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    In every one of it's core areas, Apple is the only company doing any real innovation. The rest wait for Apple's new ideas to see the light of day and then they fire up their copiers.

    No matter what Apple comes out with at the WWDC, it will be two or more years ahead of it's competitors.

    I would be not be surprised if all Apple showed was minor changes to the iPhone 3.0 software and the final touches on OS X 10.6, Snow Leopard. It is a developers conference after all.
    May 23 10:39 PM | Link | Reply
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    Rumors have always been used to manipulate Apple's stock price. It's been easy because of their policy of intense secrecy. However, smart investors have begun to see through this scam, partly due to Jon Stewart's famous on-air bust of Jim Cramer. The last two earnings reports did not result in the immediate crash that had come to be expected. This article might have been taken seriously a few quarters ago (except for being nearly unreadable). Now it's just a tired and obsolete cliché.
    May 24 01:17 AM | Link | Reply
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    I'm not sure about Apple, but I'm convinced Seeking Alpha is not living up to expectations with this post.
    May 24 01:27 AM | Link | Reply
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    Actually, this is the second major announcement to the public after Macworld with Phil Schiller in January. It was that announcement and the one in March about the 3.0 iPhone OS that got the ball rolling for that 37% gain. Apple doesn't have to worry about the expectations. They only have to concern themselves with meeting the promises they have already made. If those go off without a hitch Apple should do just fine until the next major product announcement.
    May 24 01:41 AM | Link | Reply
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    How many other Smartphone makers took developers on side in such a public way as Apple did with the early announcement of OS 3.0. Apple deserves its ever growing band of developers many of whom just enjoy the fun of it all just like the users. That is the whole thing about Apple - their products are totally enjoyable and have such a low frustration component. Can you say the say for Microsoft and those phones which need triple key presses to do an SMS and lurk in the bottom of handbags for days..
    May 25 01:42 AM | Link | Reply
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    There is absolutely nothing the iPhone is going to have that will excite the tech-pundits or techno-geeks. The new iPhone will be claimed a disappointment and a failure. Apple does not build the iPhone for these type of people who are only excited about cutting edge hardware at exorbitant costs. Apple builds the iPhone so that people can easily use whatever features are offered. Most of the users don't even care what processor or parts or OS is inside as long as it works well.

    As far as I'm concerned, if the iPhone works just a little bit better than the previous model, that's something to be grateful for. Especially, if it's got just a couple of more features at the same price range. A doubling of memory and a faster processor will go far for a part-time gaming device and that extra memory can store many more apps.

    What's not to like. Calling it a boring device because it can't be used for time-travel is completely absurd. I don't recall analysts calling BlackBerrys boring devices when they basically only excelled at texting and push email. BBs are good at what they do and that's what's important to users. The new iPhone will undoubtedly be very useful to most users for what it can do. Being a jack-of-all-trades device.
    May 25 05:30 PM | Link | Reply
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    I don't disagree with you. I have an iPhone and I love it. I was just trying to argue about how expectations are affecting Apple stock price. I know Apple is an innovation leader, but all these rumours are not helping Apple.


    On May 25 01:42 AM Aussie Machead wrote:

    > How many other Smartphone makers took developers on side in such
    > a public way as Apple did with the early announcement of OS 3.0.
    > Apple deserves its ever growing band of developers many of whom just
    > enjoy the fun of it all just like the users. That is the whole thing
    > about Apple - their products are totally enjoyable and have such
    > a low frustration component. Can you say the say for Microsoft and
    > those phones which need triple key presses to do an SMS and lurk
    > in the bottom of handbags for days..
    May 26 03:50 PM | Link | Reply
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    I'm sorry for that. I never meant to appear in Yahoo Finance News.


    On May 23 07:34 PM Uruz1 wrote:

    > I hate to come off as a snob, but I can't make it past the first
    > sentence with all the mistakes in it. Here's what I saw when I got
    > to this page:
    >
    > "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced aout bApple’s (seekingalpha.com/symbo...)
    > capabilities for continued growth without Steve Jobs presence."<br/>
    >
    > Here's how it SHOULD read:
    >
    > "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced about Apple’s (seekingalpha.com/symbo...)
    > capabilities for continued growth without Steve Jobs' presence."
    >
    >
    > A spelling error AND a grammatical error in the opening sentence
    > of an article is never a good sign. How does something like this
    > get linked to Yahoo! Financial News?
    May 26 03:56 PM | Link | Reply
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    It is my opinion and I post wherever I want. I think Apple's expectations are influencing the price of the stock (today was upgraded by an MS analyst to $180) and I think there is no reason to be up 50% in two month. That is what the article tries to deal with.
    When to talk about REAL financial news, you want only articles written by experts who lost 40% 50% in their portfolios? If you don't like it don't read it, there are plenty of thing to do.


    On May 23 07:14 PM Don Bowey wrote:

    > Apple's next product, and all that follow, must only live up to Apple's
    > expectations. We can only hope we like what they do.
    >
    > Trying to live up the wants posted in everyone's blog, and "analyst's"
    > news, is ridiculous. They feed on each other's fantasies, beyond
    > all reason.
    >
    > This is fine for a newsgroup discussion, but this was posted to a
    > REAL financial news, group.
    May 26 04:01 PM | Link | Reply
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    And just for you to know, the original was "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced at Apple’s capabilities for continue growing without Steve Jobs presence." so the spelling error was not mine.

    On May 23 07:34 PM Uruz1 wrote:

    > I hate to come off as a snob, but I can't make it past the first
    > sentence with all the mistakes in it. Here's what I saw when I got
    > to this page:
    >
    > "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced aout bApple’s (seekingalpha.com/symbo...)
    > capabilities for continued growth without Steve Jobs presence."<br/>
    >
    > Here's how it SHOULD read:
    >
    > "In my first post, I stated that I was convinced about Apple’s (seekingalpha.com/symbo...)
    > capabilities for continued growth without Steve Jobs' presence."
    >
    >
    > A spelling error AND a grammatical error in the opening sentence
    > of an article is never a good sign. How does something like this
    > get linked to Yahoo! Financial News?
    May 26 04:13 PM | Link | Reply
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    good comment, you know a lot


    On May 24 01:27 AM Camden wrote:

    > I'm not sure about Apple, but I'm convinced Seeking Alpha is not
    > living up to expectations with this post.
    May 26 04:14 PM | Link | Reply
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    I know why some of you didn't get the idea. The title was totally different, but the editors changed it:
    APPLE’S NEXT RELEASES: COULD BE VERY HARMFUL
    My idea was that the expectations could hurt the releases of Apple. And expectations do matter, the value of a company is the expected cash flows of the following years discounted by the cost of capital. And the expected cash flows depends on the expected products of the company. That's what I was talking about
    May 26 07:54 PM | Link | Reply
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