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10 Reasons Not to Buy Apple

These reasons are way off-target. For one thing, the article fails to recognize the huge market penetration that is left to AAPL as it has enormous room to grow in all its markets. Secondly, most of the reasons focus on the iPhone and fail to recognize that AAPL's potential growth and larger revenue base in it it's Mac product line which continues to grow dramatically and continues to generate cash and continues to gain market share. Even if phone revenue flattened out (which it won't), the remaining products will fuel growth for a long time to come. For every 'reason not to buy AAPL', there are ten counter-reasons to do so.

Can Apple Remain the Unique Innovator It Was, Without Steve Jobs?

In response to the article title -- YES, certainly.

Apple: Eight iPhone Annoyances

You can make a list of 8 annoyances about any cell phone on the market. For that matter, just about any product. Say what you want - the iPhone still is best in class, it's introduction revolutionized the market, and it's still flying off the shelves.

Feet to the Fire: How Analysts Missed on Apple iPhone Shipments

"How Analysts Missed on Apple iPhone Shipments" ????? - Well, generally speaking, the analysts are complete morons. Is it any surprise they missed? Really, they rarely work from empirical data, possess poor analytical reasoning skills, operate often on the basis of their bias, and just plain don't do much more than take a guess. It's worse than predicting the weather....to repeat, they are just plain stupid and simply don't know how to analyze anything.

Apple: Like Starbucks and Whole Foods, A Trend That's Past Its Prime

This article has no intellectual or business value whatsoever. It's just plain stupid.

By How Much Will Apple 'Blow Away' Its 10M iPhone Target?

Geez - you guys are abnormally obsessed with iPhone sales projections. 10M, 11M, 12M....?? Who cares!! The core business engine for AAPL is the MAC. Taking maket share in the PC space, growing MAC shipments, and expanding margins in that sector dwarfs the business potential of the phones. If the analysts paid attention to the core business model, and then factored in pods and phones for what they are (extra gravy!!), then they'd finally get on the right track. At the rate AAPL is growing their core business, any miss on phone projections just isn't going to matter.

Apple: Taking Some Chips Off the Table at Current Prices

Short iPhone inventory? New 3G products? All this speculation over the phones is interesting, but ignores the fractional nature of that business line.

AAPL's big, BIG money and growth is coming from market share gains in the laptop & desktop business. Fundamentally, AAPL is a computer company with an accelerating, expaning business. That alone screams for long term buy. Phones and Pods are just icing on the cake.

Hold On To RIMM

You all are talking like AAPL's a cell phone company. iPhones are such a small fraction of AAPL's business, it's nonsense to compare the business models next to each other for these two fine companies. AAPL is a computer company - their growth and future lies with taking market share in the world of PCs. That component of their business dwarfs the phone and music businesses - by far. AAPL gets most of their 'hype' from iPhone, but they get their revenue from PCs.

Consumers Will Continue to Buy Apple's Fashionable Gadgets

"everyone is missing the forest for the trees - the real story ..... is the halo effect of bringing customers to the bread and butter of the company: the Mac" - AT LAST - a sane and accurate article about AAPL's business model. Thank YOU!

Apple Stock: Still 35% Off at a Broker Near You

At last! A fair artcile by an author who actually mentions the fact that the Macs are the real growth story in AAPL's business model. Thanks for not obsessing over phones and pods. 8M phones, 10M phones, 9.3M phones????? Who cares. It's a fraction of the revenue. The company's balance sheet, growth rate and fundamentals, and market share penetration by the Mac are the reasons for the lofty 12 month estimates. The phones and pods are side businesses for God's sake.

Why iPhone Unlocking is Growing Every Day

Who Cares?? Honest to God, every one of you 'reporters' at Alpha are fixated and obsessed on ipHone conjecture. Dude, the iPhone represents 6% - right, six meager percentage points - of AAPL's 2008 revenue projections. Talk about the Mac - that's the foundation of AAPL's business and phenomenal growth story. The Mac will drive this stock investment - not the iPhone! I really don't care how many of the phones are locked or unlocked. It's not that important to the overall story at Apple.

Apple Cuts Price On 1GB iPod Shuffle, Unveils 2GB Version

"Go to an Apple store, I dare you on a Saturday, NOW post Christmas, in the worst time for retailling everywhere, count the bodies in the store, then walk down the street, or around the Mall, see if ANYONE has that kind of visible action going on...and they are not just lookers either." - Ditto - that's what I see in my local store too. Apple's selling stuff just fine.

Apple Sitting on Excess Inventory?

These analysts are MORONS !!!!!
"Morgan Stanley notes this AM that the key bear case on Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) shares is that iPod unit growth is slowing" - SHEEESH!! - Don't they ever note that the revenue/iPOD is increasing because the consumer is buying higher-end, more expensive models?? That is a critical factor in the analysis - so why do these idiots just plain not notice reality?

And for God's sake - how can the sale of 22 MILLION iPODs in asingle quarter be construed as disappointing?

Under The Radar News - Wednesday

Cisco' Quite Cutbacks? Bernanke's Private Horror Stories? Where do you get this baloney? Unverified, low impact, innuendo....geez, I'm just wasting my time reading stuff like this. Do you have any real and actionable information to offer? BTW, try to say things accurately - a 'hiring freeze' is not a 'cutback'.

Faith in the Fed: The Last Bubble to Pop

Michael, all three of your subtopics are off the mark. Do you have any real data and information to offer, or just gloomy, off-the-wall speculations? I'm sorry I took the time to read this article.