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PC shipments fell a stunning 8.3% Y/Y in Q3, estimates Gartner - that figure makes Q2's 0.1%...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012, 5:25 PM ETPC shipments fell a stunning 8.3% Y/Y in Q3, estimates Gartner - that figure makes Q2's 0.1% drop look great by comparison, and is raising eyebrows even with all of the negative industry data that has emerged. Weak back-to-school sales and cautious retailer orders are blamed, though the tablet market's growth is hard to overlook. U.S. shipments -13.8% Y/Y (both consumer and corporate sales were weak), EMEA -8.7%, and Asia-Pac -5.6% (China's slowing growth had an effect).
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Next year will be the year of the pc/hybrids . you heard it from me first.
What the market is missing now is that Apple really has no competition to speak of, of it it does, there is plenty of room for them and avoids Apple monopolizing. Google-Samsung is a real competitor, but very few people prefer an Android to an iPhone or any kind of tablet or laptop to Apples. Only the very budget conscious are moving that way now, and Apple's brand loyalty secures everyhone who buys an Apple practically for life. No other format or product line can say that. The only reason I use a PC is that they're cheap and expendable. For any permanent product, I'd definitely pay a bit more and get the Apple, and so would more and more people around the world.
The fear mongering about Apple's demise is not only overblown, it's just plain wrong. Just the opposite is happening and this stock is a raging bargain right now. You will see. The sentiment will soon turn very bullish again then it is off to the races back through $700 and onward. $700 was just a temporary resistance point.
Well at least untill they reinvent something old or something borrowed again.
here for the plastic-extruders.
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AND... with Verizon, I routinely loose calls, can't call within supposedly "covered" areas and enjoy poor phone reception.
I think the user interface design on many apps is very poor. There should have been at least one, possibly two more buttons. That Apple breaks their own user interface guidelines for the Mac is all too amusing. The patent litigation reflects a desperate company that can't innovate.
AND... their crap is being built by abused labor (as defined by international labor and human rights treaties) causing horrific environmental damage. Way to go Apple!
The best part of an iPhone? The pictures are pretty good.
Verizon has the best coverage in the US by far.
The user interface of the iPhone is still the gold standard that has been replicated by Google and all Android vendors.
Prior to the iPhone, smartphones shipped with full keyboards, D-pads, and navigation buttons. Now they're all as minimal as the iPhone. They don't need to add buttons.
The user interfaces of iOS and OS X are different because they use different input mechanisms. What works best for a capacitive touchscreen may not be ideal for a touchpad or mouse.
The patent litigation represents a company that holds the intellectual property rights to multi-touch gestures and stated back in 2007, "...and boy have we patented it," thanks to companies that so desperately copied the iPod's clickwheel and fell over themselves to copy the iPhone's multitouch, as predicted.
Their crap is built by the same company (Foxconn) that builds products for HP, Google, Motorola, Microsoft, and dozens of other vendors. The chief complaint of Foxconnn workers is not enough opportunities for overtime.
Any other BS you'd like to shoot off? Because none of these are good reasons for why AAPL isn't a good investment, nor why Apple's products are in any way inferior to the competition.