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Does Palm's Pre Have Anything on the iPhone or Storm?

I don't think Paris Hilton was the driving force behind runaway iPhone success. It'll take a lot more than shots in People Magazine to compete with iPhones and Blackberries.

iPhone is just getting started. Do you know how many times analysts declared the iPod space was saturated - nobody left to sell them to? Wrong quarter after quarter. Repeat coming with iPhones.

Blackberry users rival Apple fans in terms of loyalty. Not quite as loyal - but it would take a lot for them to consider switching to Sprint for a device that may or may not be part of a company (Palm) on the verge of bankruptcy.

Microsoft's Mobile Misfortune

MS is easily distracted. They've been late for three parties:

Browsers.
Search n' Cloud.
Mobile

I think their late arrival in mobile will underscore their inability to innovate and mark the beginning of a steady decline.

NT was an incomplete copy of UNIX, (read Show Stopper) Zune is an uninspired copy of the iPod.

Nobody has ever used a significant percentage of the features MS forced us to buy in overpriced Office. Office isn't a must-have anymore - alternatives are aplenty. Windows is far less important than it was ten years ago.

If someone developed serious competition for Exchange MS would really be up against the ropes.

The Ongoing Smartphone Revolution

Robx couldn't be more right. You provide virtually zero basis for your claims. It would help if you conceded that maybe, just maybe, the iPhone has more than marketing to account for its success.

This article is little more than a user comment on a gadget blog.

Why don't you go write it again and try a little harder. I'm interested in why I should want a Google phone instead of an iPhone. I'm also interested in why a non-technical user would be better off with the Google phone.

And have an editor read it before you post it.

Microsoft + Facebook + Netbook = Getting Ahead of the Curve

Microsoft doesn't strike me as a company that gets ahead of the curve. They snoozed through the Internet boom and then managed to snooze through search as well. They chase the curve. Their continued interest in Yahoo is all the proof anyone needs.

Microsoft's Office for the Web Will be Ready No Time Soon

Yeah - often Apple does announce things and then they're ready today. But a lot of people wouldn't call it a benefit to consumers. It's hard to plan big ticket purchases without a road map.

There's more than just the buzz to benefit Apple: You unwittingly buy a product at the end of its lifecycle and can't resist the urge to upgrade it immediately. Apple gets two sales where there might have been one.

Netflix May Dominate The Online Video World, But With What Business Model?

This is how easy it would be for Apple to apply the Netflix subscription model to video downloads:

murphymac.com/itunes-s.../

Why the studios are so willing to distribute easy-to-copy DVDs instead of pushing iTunes DRM is beyond me.

Does a Mobile Internet Devices Market Exist?

Kris23 - even though I think the iPod touch and iPhone are the BEST handheld Internet by far - I still find both strenuous for anything in depth. But a 6 in screen - that's tons more real estate and I think it would make a huge difference in readability. I'd rather take an oversize iPhone on a trip than a laptop...

Does a Mobile Internet Devices Market Exist?

DeanB said: "Honestly, I'm getting fed up with iPhone fanboys trying to read criticism into anything I wrote about the thing, particularly when I'm praising it. I've repeatedly said its a good device - it's just a shame about the attitudes of some of its fans, who seem to go actively looking for negative comments, where none are made or implied. "

You're wasting your breath. And you're writing on a site that constantly baits Apple fans with slanted, pointless, uninformed stories.

And the answer to your headline is yes. Even if the market is small now only a fool would think it won't eventually soar at an exponential rate.

Apple as a Target

Brewer said: "I predict that DECE will fail just like 'playsforsure' did. Microsoft left the consumers high and dry with that one. There should be a class action suite against them."

Brewer is right. PlayforSure, Yahoo!, Amazon Unbox --- they all make half-hearted attempts and leave their customers AND partners in the cold. Surely all the mp3 makers are irked with Microsoft, but they don't have the power to address the rejection of PlayforSure.

It's hard to picture a day when Apple says my iTunes music won't play. With the others it's a near certainty.

Five Reasons Steve Ballmer Thinks Apple's a Buy

Tom B -

I won't argue, but it really bugs me that a stock could be manipulated so easily. Is it pundits or is it the institutions? How can it be possible on such a scale??

As for the conservative guidance: I can see that if it wasn't such a constant. But by now Apple's lowballs should be factored in, and the consistent performance should be rewarded.

Thinking it's the general state of the economy seems like the most comforting explanation, as a long.

Five Reasons Steve Ballmer Thinks Apple's a Buy

Quarter after quarter Apple outperforms expectations and previous quarters, moving into record territory. But the stock can't get over the $200 hurdle. I'd love to know where it would be in a healthier market.
Even with the current market conditions, I have to wonder how all this good news could already be factored into the share price. It doesn't seem logical for Apple to keep hitting home runs and not get back to $200 per share. Mac sales increasing at a remarkable rate, stock stuck in the mud.
Someone tell me why...