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For Advanced Micro, Things Go from Bad to Worse

I don't believe it to be a pathetic company. But a company with a pathetic board. I believe AMD *could* be another Apple story if the right people were put in place but I don't see that happening. These idiots took WAY to long to boot Ruiz who drove this company into the ground at mach 9. He has done everything he could to wreck this company. How does this tool keep getting a job??
AMD needs wayyyy better management and it needs to focus its too spread out and needs to start small again focusing on it's core model. Even then like Apple it will take a decade for it to be on decent footing again.

For Advanced Micro, Things Go from Bad to Worse

I don't believe it to be a pathetic company. But a company with a pathetic board. I believe AMD *could* be another Apple story if the right people were put in place but I don't see that happening. These idiots took WAY to long to boot Ruiz who drove this company into the ground at mach 9. He has done everything he could to wreck this company. How does this tool keep getting a job??
AMD needs wayyyy better management and it needs to focus its too spread out and needs to start small again focusing on it's core model. Even then like Apple it will take a decade for it to be on decent footing again.

Apple's a Buy on This Big Fall - Barron's

I understand what you are saying biobot. And its a wise and prudent thing to question to be honest. I just know for me looking not just at P/E but considering the fact that they have such a small fraction of the market in PC sales leaving a huge galactic size window of growth in that area, you have massive growth in the cellular market and IMO I have no doubt Apple will eventually take 1st place as #1 handset maker in a few years. The iPhone imo will duplicate the iPod and we all know how well the iPod turned out. Then you have the new HD movie rental service and to a lesser extend TV show on demand service. While there are some snags for it to over come to take off this is outside Apples hands. The movie and tv execs are going to have adopt to DRM'less on demand no restriction HD digital sales of their content or like the RIAA will drive themselves to extinction from massive lawsuits and an unstoppable flow of pirated HD content from Bit Torrent sites. The people have spoken, they want very cheap $1-$2 HD movie rentals with no strings attached. If you dont give it to them piracy will just keep being rampant. You have to price things with features people want at a price they want to pay or they will just pirate. You can't compete with free HD via lawsuit you have to make it so people are compelled to pay for what they want. Which means very very low price and features galore they cant get with pirating torrents. I don't know for me I feel confident in Apples ability to grow exponentially in '08 and beyond with new products and services. I just think they have way to much growth opportunity with little to no competition. They can't be out innovated by anyone in the market today. No one is out designing them. No one also offers the hardware *and* software marriage they do. So for me its an obvious buy right now. However if someone starts competing in those areas with Apple I might re-evaluate but I am not holding my breath.

Apple's a Buy on This Big Fall - Barron's

Any analysts that claim negative days for Apple automatically go into my Doomsday Cult file. I mean *seriously*, how many decades are some of you people going to claim Apple is dead before you get a clue? Steve's return to Apple saw them branch out from only a PC maker, to a music and TV show retailer, now you have them in the cellular market, and even the movie rental business. Good lord how much growth is good enough for some of these analysts? And as far as updating the iPhone as Top_tier mentioned it has been repeatedly stated by Apple and the Great Jobs himself on numerous occasions a 3G version will be out soon. The issues is not if they can, the issue is battery life. If they bring out a juice sucking 3G phone holy cow I can just hear all the whining and moaning and high pitched squeals of the nay sayers about "Whaaa my iPhone only lasts 2 hours per charge!!".
That is exactly what will happen if Apple does not solve the energy issue first. Once they do 3G iPhones will roll out the door.
SDK is out at the end of Feb. And while we have yet to see details on it I believe it will get the job done quite well for 3rd party developers. It wont be ideal but far better than web only apps. Im looking forward to a bright 2008 for Apple with increased movie sales and rentals, and iPhone upswing. Not to mention you have product refreshes coming out on current products a couple of times this year. I am taking this opportunity to buy more Apple myself. Analyst doom and gloom'ers be damned! Buy buy buy!