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    • ON: Wed Sep 24th 09:32 AM
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      Jonathan Ive: More Valuable to Apple than Steve Jobs?
      don't agree on this, ives is talented but completely expendable
      the design directive flows from jobs and only jobs
      prior to ives say the macs of the 80's simply reflected design in the 80 allbeit done very elegantly

      gphone is great for iphone for all the healthy competetive reasons, their laissex faire open source platform will be a huge negative issue for them however
      the one company i really dont inderstand right now is rimm with a pe sky high compared to apple and google
      go figure
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    • ON: Fri Sep 19th 06:57 AM
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      Now Is the Right Time to Buy Apple Option LEAPS
      one of the few bloggers that makes sense
      thank you
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    • ON: Wed Sep 3rd 12:19 PM
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      Five Reasons Steve Ballmer Thinks Apple's a Buy
      good article as usual
      makes a nice change from the general dross from other 'authors'
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    • ON: Tue Sep 2nd 13:33 PM
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      Post-Labor Day Strategy for Apple Traders
      zach
      i dont mean to be rude but i've followed you column for a little while because it sounded promising but ultimately it fails to deliver

      question, do you make a living solely as a trader or do you have another profession
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    • ON: Sat Aug 16th 11:22 AM
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      The End Run Around the Operating System Is Under Way
      well lets see we have the iphone whos main strength is... ?
      oh yes thats right its o.s.
      perhaps a web analogy would have made your points more relevant but that is old news
      somebody please screen these marginal writers
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    • ON: Thu Aug 14th 10:24 AM
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      Apple's Interesting Challenge with Its Best Buy Deal
      why pick apple to try to make this absurd theory one of only a few companies to have an effective monoploly that is cool ie the ipod
      ridiculous article
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    • ON: Thu Aug 7th 11:37 AM
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      Measuring Music: Top 5 US Retailers
      interesting but only half the story
      numbers please ?
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    • ON: Thu Aug 7th 11:18 AM
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      5 Reasons Not to Upgrade to the New iPhone 3G
      i wondered how this columnist could possibly make a living with this standard of reporting, until i realized he doesn't
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    • ON: Thu Aug 7th 11:16 AM
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      Apple Can Disable iPhone Apps, but Should They?
      a voice of reason, i couldnt agree more, its to everyones benefit
      the phone communicates with apple often for updates etc and is just a form of that

      i tried a jailbroken gen 1 phone for a while and although i liked the additional features my phone was like the wild west never knowing when a rogue app could take me down

      i love the app store somewhat safe in the knowledge that 3rd part programs have been vetted and if something malicious slips through its gets fixed

      now i know there will be a bunch of outraged people but realistically its a great idea
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    • ON: Wed Aug 6th 11:00 AM
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      Research In Motion's 3G Counteroffensive: The Smartphone Arms Race Escalates
      Paul, You might consider having your company Changewave do a more statistically relevent survey, ie what is the CURRENT run rate of sales for both RIMM & AAPL (presuming palm is about dead)
      You would get a very different market share picture and data that is more useful to your readers

      It is RIMM that is on the front line about to be run over by Apple not the '2nd tier' manufacturers. Apple is employing a classic top down sales strategy starting with a high priced handset and in the coming 18mos filling in the price gaps underneath it.
      Nokia who holds the largest market share with many inexpensive handsets will be the last to feel the effects of Apple

      However Apple has quitely declared that ALL phones in the future will be smart phones and as features currently considered 'smart' become manadatory on even the cheapest handsets even Nokia weill lose significant market share to Apple who not only has invented this new phone market place but essentially monopolises many of its feature sets and equally importantly holds a monopoly on the seamless integration between feature sets

      Step back a little and look at the bigger picture beyond a couple of too late copycat handsets from Rimm and try to poduce quality quantative research
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    • ON: Wed Aug 6th 10:36 AM
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      Research In Motion's 3G Counteroffensive: The Smartphone Arms Race Escalates
      What a short sited article, Apple has an effective monopoly in the new space it its creating, Rimm is just a one trick pony doing too little too late.
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    • ON: Wed Jul 30th 14:46 PM
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      Apple: Are Investors Overlooking Cash Earnings?
      nice article but iphone is currently only a very small piece of the apple business
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    • ON: Fri Jul 25th 11:28 AM
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      Apple Investors Need to Get a Grip
      well im hijacking this thread with a couple of somewhat related comments

      i like your dialog enough to add you into my daily apple read (i am long) along with a couple of select others

      suggestion 1
      make your site zachbass.com an iphone friendly site layout wise
      given your chosen topic it makes sense, that where i read you mostly

      suggestion 2
      like you i am frustrated by the ineptitude and agendas of the analysts that analyze business but are not 'in business'
      i think you suggested a rating system for them ? so do it, your great with charts and numbers, grab the top 10 ? mark their earnings estimates as a percentage in terms of accuracy by the quarter and offer a cumulative average for each guy, post it right at the top of your site permanently that updates every 90 days
      it would get a LOT of attention for you,
      and provide a lot of value to individual investors such as myself,
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    • ON: Thu Jul 24th 09:29 AM
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      Has Starbucks Bottomed? Not by a Long Shot
      here is a true tale, i own a a business district cafe and eatery in stamford ct, cafecaroline.com i jumped through hoops to sell starbucks presuming the cache would be great for our business clientele and great for delivery

      starbucks promised me they would not let others very local to me sell starbucks, well that lasted 2 months and they started selling starbucks at one of the office building cafeteria's local to us, curtailing any thoughts of starbucks delivery

      we ran with it for about 6months paying a hefty materials premium not only for the coffee but for the paper cups etc after that term my partner and i began to wonder if starbucks brand was actually bringing in additional customers and with limited data (1 store ) we concluded 'no'

      so what did we do ? well my partner carolines scoured the land for the best tasting coffee, we rebranded everything to cafe caroline 'MoJo' brand and put it out there and the reaction was...

      absolutely NOTHING ! the odd comment here and there people were totall satisfied, our sales go up everymonth about 9-12% because we are new however not factoring this in we do not appear to have any decline is sales whatsoever
      we do however save a staggering 61% on the cost of materials

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    • ON: Thu Jul 24th 08:23 AM
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      Apple: Unlocking iPhone Profits
      iphone is only a fraction (albeit growing) amount of the appl business
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