Doug, Mtn. View, CA

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.

Nokia: Profit Down While Aiming at Apple

LOL. All of these Apple wanna-bes think that if they only add this piece or that piece of the Apple package, then just maybe they can compete. Apple is all about the TOTAL experience, from hardware to software to UI, and of course, the iTunes Music Store. Simply by setting up a server and calling it their version of iTMS, Nokia thinks they're being better than Apple? This is laughable. No wonder Apple continues to lead (although not *dominate* --- yet) the market --- no cellphone company has all of the tools at its disposal like Apple does. Not a ONE of them!

My prediction: doomed to go down in flames, like all others.