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    • Thu Nov 6th 14:42 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Apple's Next Big Content Push?
      Very interesting - and plausible. Although much (if not all) of the content on iTunes U is currently free, Apple could conceivably try to monetize educational content. I'm uncertain as to how much they'd take in, though; for starters, they'd be going into competition against, for example, The Teaching Company, which has a substantial course catalog, and they would be competing against the sometimes excellent free content already on iTunes U.

      An alternative hypothesis would be that his new job is to figure out how to train Apple Store employees in "selling cool" and ensuring that Apple remains an aspirational brand even as it is more and more widely adopted. That's much closer to your example of Hamburger University, but it could be an interesting job for someone with serious sociological credentials. As for why he'd leave the academic world for that, the answer is pretty straightforward - large sums of money.
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    • Wed Oct 8th 11:08 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Awaiting Apple Earnings and Guidance
      Here's a crazy idea for Apple...

      At current pricing, the market capitalization of General Motors (NYSE:GM) is under $4 billion. How about if Apple just buys them, for cash? If Apple installs integrated iPod / iPhone holders in each and every new model, they'd probably get at least several million more iPod sales... They could get Jon Ive to work some of his magic on the GM product line, and maybe come up with vehicles that people around the world would want to buy....
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    • Tue Jul 1st 20:22 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Bernstein Raises Apple's Target on Higher iPhone Forecast
      Eric, really - would you be so kind as to disclose what relationship you have with Toni that causes you to publish this dreck? Toni Sacconaghi has been astonishingly, mind-boggling wrong on many occasions with respect to AAPL analysis. What would cause you to give any weight to (her? his?) opinions?
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    • Mon Dec 3rd 22:02 PM | Rating: 0 0
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      Klausner Technologies Sues Over iPhone
      Look up the two referenced patents - neither one of them applies. Both state, and I quote:

      "...These codes or numbers are decoded by means of the caller entering DTMF signals into the telephone which are recognized, recorded and processed by the [Telephone Answering Device]. ..."

      Since an iPhone doesn't require the caller to enter DTMF signals - it gets its information from callerID info - neither patent is applicable. Nice try, but bogus claim. I don't know what the specific claims were against the other companies that Klaussner rolled, but it since iPhones DO NOT rely on callers to enter DTMF signals, the Klaussner claim loses. As I read it, Klaussner claims to have invented a way to signal to the recipient of a voicemail message by sending DTMF tones as part of the message - which, by the way, seems like a non-patentably obvious bit of "inventing".

      Work with me on this... hmmm.... I have a recorder here, which can be used to save messages... these messages are in audio format.... they could be people saying words.... or they could be other sounds that were somehow meaningful.... like, oh, I dunno, maybe DTMF sounds. That's it! We could record DTMF sounds to pass messages, just as we could modulate our voices to say "words" that could leave messages, too! Patent that! Get me some lawyers!

      What rubbish.
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    • Sat Dec 1st 09:30 AM | Rating: 0 0
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      Apple Joins Microsoft in Fear Factor; Look to Lenovo
      I'll quote:

      "I have a brand new iPhone sitting right next to me on my desk that I can't figure out how to unlock and jailbreak now that it comes pre-loaded with 1.1.2 firmware. So it just sits there on my desk making me hate Apple more every day."

      So some genius buys a new iPhone and complains because Apple made it more secure. And rather than returning it, (or not buying it in the first place), he'll just keep it sitting on his desk, making him angry and raising his blood pressure. What's he going to do when the SDK is released and jailbreak is no longer needed? Take out the iPhone, shoot it, and then hate Apple for its inadequate resistance to ballistic events? Or maybe the bullet will ricochet off, and he can hate Apple for the iPhone's indestructibility?

      What garbage.
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