Doug, Mtn. View, CA

Apple's App Store Numbers Continue to Amaze

"When they added a bit more memory and processing power to the iPod, they realized that it could run third party applications, so they made an iStore for applications."

Uh, no. There was never an App Store until the iPhone came along, and even then Apple had to be prodded to do it. Apple's initial idea of phone apps was web-based, which went over like a lead balloon. The App store was created for the iPhone, not the iPod. Only when the Touch followed the iPhone could you run an app on an iPod.

A lousy historical overview, to say the least.

Four Reasons to Avoid Apple

To use April-June sales data to conclude the iPod is dead tells me that Vieira has no idea what he's talking about. iPod's sales always skyrocket during the Xmas selling season, and we're 180 degrees from that time of earth's orbit. 10+ million iPod sales in the dead of summer? Not bad! What makes more sense as a Christmas gift, a $100 iPod or an iPhone with a $70/mo payment obligation (for two years, no less)? Thanks for the valuable lesson: never employ the services of Beyond Trading.

Apple Bars Palm from iTunes: Is Pre a Threat?

Palm pasted a target on its chest when it pulled off this little stunt. Has anyone stopped to ask "how did Palm manage to open iTunes so that it recognized the Pre" in the first place? No one else has managed to similarly hack iTunes, which begs the question: how did Palm do it? It's no secret that Palm employs some former Apple employees. Example: their CEO. No doubt one or some of them used their knowledge of Apple proprietary source code to open the iTunes door. Anyone want to wager that Palm will NOT sue over this latest Apple retaliatory response? Imagine the fun that Apple lawyers would have during the discovery phase of such a lawsuit!

Taking Another Bite of Apple

On May 11 11:53 AM Constable Odo wrote:

"I'm long Apple since 2004 and I want to see Apple make a name for itself in the corporate sector and not just some.. company that sells games for people on the run. Apple doesn't have a single product in the enterprise that can generate continuous sales and that's not good at all."

Then you'd better get out Apple. Jobs has made it very clear that Apple is a consumer electronics company, not an enterprise company. And that he's content to leave enterprise to Ballmer, et al. Enterprise Innovation is an oxymoron. Jobs is obsessed with innovation, in case you haven't noticed. So get out of Apple stock now while you can and plow your proceeds into MSFT, where you'll be in enterprise heaven. Apple will continue to slog along in the consumer market and continue to make their billions there, much to your continued consternation. Or haven't you noticed that either?

Long on the stock since 2004, and you don't know a thing about Apple?

P.S.: Apple makes nothing on the Apps Store. Their billions must come from somewhere else, which you no doubt missed in the last five years.

Microsoft May Be Able to Halt Apple's Music Monopoly

How's that Plays For Sure library coming along, Jack Dee?


On May 14 03:14 PM jack dee wrote:

> I will restate,
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> The $15 dollar sub covers 3 USERS on 3 Zunes using 3 machines.
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> That is millions of songs for $5 per user...... do the mathes kids,
> MSFT is giving you much much more for much much less.

DOJ Uses Google to Send a Message

.... and that the Democrats eat their own. I.e., Schmidt and Jobs are big time Obama backers. LOL!

iTunes' Inevitable Price Increase

Why isn't the title of this piece "iTunes inevitable price decrease"? I bought a bunch of songs yesterday for $.69 each, which is cheaper than it was only last week. Yet, ALL of the bloggers only talk about the rise in price of the pop junk to $1.29. The stuff I listen to and want to buy just had a price DECREASE *and* DRM was stripped off. Why didn't this fact get any ink?

Canaccord: Three New iPhones Expected in 2009

I am constantly astonished at morons like this who think that Apple, or anyone else, can just knock out three phones (snap!) like that. Do these asshats have any idea how difficult it is to get one phone certified, much less three? It's one thing to introduce 3 iPods in a 6 month period, but 3 iPhones? Apple's good ("great," actually), but not that great.

Not to mention timing. Apple has been consistent in the last few years: iPhones in June. iPods in September. (Macs .... whenever.) Why would Apple depart from their enormously successful rollout strategy? Hint: any cell phone makes a lousy Christmas present for most people --- it comes with monthly payments.

And why? Why would Apple introduce these products, as described? What separates each from the others? Steve Jobs has ALWAYS offered a sparse product line to avoid customer confusion. Now he gets the hair up his butt to flood the market with 3 phone models that all do pretty much the same thing and with features that break his App Store business model? How stupid are you?

This speculation is perhaps the dumbest I have read in the past 12 months.

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

And now Munster has chimed in with depressing news: Apple won't be releasing a new iPhone (he says) in March when he (Munster) wanted Apple to do so. Of all the nerve, Apple! You aren't listening to Munster's commands? I am shocked!

The ANALysts remind me of Hamas: they shoot rockets into Israel, then get hammered and beg for a cease-fire. A couple of months later, they shoot rockets into Israel again, but expect different results. On and on it goes.

In a similar vein: Apple releases products at what are obviously regular intervals. June for phones, September for iPods. Yet here we have another ignorant ANALyst wondering why Apple is off of HIS calendar, not meeting HIS schedule. Time and time again, Apple has proven that it has a superior understanding of when to release products --- the results speak for themselves. But the ANALysts? They know better! Why, if only Apple would listen to them, Apple's sales would easily double!

Morons. They're all morons.

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

Analysts are like your average generic critic: incompetent and incapable. Were they any good, they would go into business selling their visions of the future to real customers, who would hold them accountable. As this article demonstrates, the above-quoted individuals would clearly quickly fold if they went that path. The safer thing to do is take a job as an analyst, draw a salary, and never say "sorry to be so blatantly wrong." They are the Capt. Wrong-Way Peter Peachfuzz of their industry --- do just the opposite of what they command, if you know what's good for you.

Apple Warns iPhone Competitors: Don't Rip Us Off

>> "I mean multi-touch for scaling photos is not so far from the Trash Can/Recycle bin is it? Am I missing something? Did they learn nothing in the last 20 years?"

Yes, you are missing something. Exactly who are you saying Apple ripped off?

You have your open OS in Android. How's that going, especially in comparison to iPhone sales? If you're so damned smart, and YOU innovate, then someone rips you off, what are you going to do? If you were getting ripped off, as Apple clearly is, how exactly would you propose to defend your inventions?

On one hand you say that Apple is not innovative, then you admit they ARE bold and innovative. Which is it?

And in case you haven't noticed in the 32 years of its existence, Apple NEVER did anything "open" which they would later "close off." Do you know something that I don't?

Who, pray tell, beat them with an open architecture, as you state? You're not saying the "M-word," are you? MSFT is open? LMAOROF.

Yes, Apple got lazy in the 90s and damn near went belly up. But in 1997, this guy named Steve Jobs (maybe you heard about him --- he's been in the papers a lot) took the helm at Apple again. Give me an example of the Jobs-era Apple getting lazy. Just one. I'm dying to hear your response.

Earnings Preview: Apple

Woz? Are you out of your mind? Can you point to a single venture he's launched in the last 25 years that's been successful? A "visionary product" that he has conceived? While a delightful interview, he doesn't know squat about anything anymore.

OS 10.5 is not stable? And you have to wait forever for updates? What planet are you from? OS 10.5.0 came out in October, and now we're at 10.5.6 --- that's 7 updates in 4 months, since you probably can't count, either. Care to compare this to the number of Vista service pack upgrades in its 2 year existence?

Just because nothing was introduced at MW doesn't mean that Apple is holding still. You no doubt don't know this either, but it takes at least a year to create and release a product, so Jobs' withdrawl two weeks ago hardly had anything to do with the dearth of new product releases at MW.

I don't know what you do, but here's hoping you don't guide other people's market decisions. You sound better suited for selling shoes.

Apple and Macworld: The End of an Era or Two

Rubenstein? Surely you jest! He has the charisma of a Dell Inspiron owner's manual.

Apple Earnings: What to Expect (And Who Not to Believe)

Oh for God's sake, User283143, you're embarrassing yourself with your poor grammar and incomprehensible language constructs. It took me about ten seconds to figure out that "creations of desing" was supposed to be "creative design," for instance. No one knows what you're trying to say, so put a sock in it. I'd recommend a class in bonehead English at a community college near you.

Apple-Microsoft Ad Wars Heat Up Again

I think the latest ads are the best, most dead-on commercial that Apple has done so far. They properly lampoon Ballmer's position: "there is nothing wrong with Vista, and we'll prove it with $500 million of advertising." And let us not forget, as Peter021 properly points out, that Apple is not Microsoft's direct competitor. Apple makes virtually no money off its OSX sales. Apple sells hardware. Microsoft sells software and operating systems. By responding to Apple's ads as it does, Microsoft only acknowledges Apple's superior advantage: a seemless blend of hardware AND software. Microsoft cannot offer that as a product. They are off-message and they are toast.

What better way to acknowledge this than the annoying TV commercial from FinallyFast.com, a utility to "speed up PCs that have slowed down." The first two machines they show in the ad? An iMac and a G4 iBook! Later on we see the iMac's white keyboard, then we finally see a "fixed and now faster PC" on the iMac's screen. Redmond, we have a problem: www.youtube.com/watch?...