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Apple: Expecting Short-Term Weakness

perhaps we should not dignify Andy's idiocy with our attention.

Apple's MobileMe Mess

apple will get to the bottom of the problem and square it away quickly and trust that it will not be a band aid work around but a true fix. Mine is working fine. if any of you have had networking problems you would know fixes are a lot of educated guesses and trial and error propositions individual users can inadvertently mess things up (we had a stock boy search for an item that did not exist that put our company into an infinite loop that lasted 3 days) sometimes what you fix breaks something else there are a lot of reboots and reloads involved have a little patience here and remember if your a windows user searching the internet for some obscure .dll to get your scanner to work or calling tech support and having to rewrite code over the phone. sit back and the apple engineers will come out the other side with even better software (6 years in the making VISTA! yeah lets let Microsoft fix our phones!)

Apple: Expecting Short-Term Weakness

the choice of words from pundits always causes trouble if you don't see where the silver tongued devil is sending you if Colon Powell had called the baggy of baking soda and the crappy picture of a truck an "exhibit" instead of "evidence" we woild not be stuck in the briar patch right now. When a record quarter and lines of people at your outlets for weeks is "lacluster" i begin to think your keyboard must be a PC piece of junk and the b and l keys are sticking cause i see "Blockbuster" here

Apple: Economy Is Depressed

judging by the lines at the stores yes the depression will slow the growth rate from 800 percent to somewhere around 799. if we were in a "depression" and i was as broke as Russell Crowe in Cinderella man i could only afford one present for my kid this christmas guess where i would spend my wad. No worries about the apples mate!

AT&T Comments on Apple's 3G iPhone

hell at&t towed my car out of the lot while i used a bathroom next door (the at&t store was not open yet) the tow cost me 300 dollars and when i complained to corporate they said because i did not shop there THAT DAY i was not a customer! any corporation who could show up in small claims court with an argument like that (i won) cant reason worth a darn

Time to Stand Up for Steve Jobs

first of all a little credit goes to Xerox and the PARC team and the "Woz" who took Xerox's idea of the graphic user interface and the mouse and went with it (had it not been for them you would be looking at orange text with a blinking bar beneath one of the letters)Steve Jobs was the visionary that knew where these devices could go but it was the unsung apple engineers that smoothed out the nits and cricks and eventually made the beauty of OSX a reality .Microsoft's problem has always been they have no idea what we are likely to want to actually do with our computers. Like a pack of gum you don't need an instruction past "pull tab" to figure how it should work you pull the tab the cap pops off the gum is wrapped the paper falls away the powdered slice of gum is there you chew. Millions of people go through the same dance to get the peppermint reward with out instruction or manual that is the apple design esthetic in a green wrapper they care about what you want to do and set it up to do what you most likely want to do. steve guides that process by sending his people back again and again to refine the interface and constantly reevaluates what they have done not dump more features a'la Vista. if Steve were to leave tomorrow unless apple put a total dummy in there the design guidelines(go look at them in the tech library developer.apple.com/do...) already in place would continue to bring apple forward into the next great opportunity

Options Trader: Tuesday Outlook

not every one made irresponsible decisions who have lost their homes
I went blind in one eye and could no longer work as a jeweler my wife freaked out at our new situation and bailed on the family taking an 80 thousand dollar home equity line with her in cash i spent every dime i had trying to stay in the home so my son could finish school i was making it barely till my oil bills toped 1000 dollars for a tank fill up . i was forced to sell a step ahead of foreclosure i made those payments for 15 years there are many people who are wage earners who have been nailed into this position by the ass in the white house no one dare ask for a raise in this economy we could save a lot of gas by not driving tanks around in a desert. a helping hand from the government might have saved what's left of my family what was done is criminal and i hope bush Cheny and Powell rot in hell i take real offense at the knee jerk "screw em" attitude Im seeing here these homes were hope for a lot of people and they took a stab at belonging somewhere and had that taken away by a bunch of looters. Kudos to Phillip for telling it like it might be

Earnings Preview: Apple

if investors are supposed to be "forward looking" they must have their windows painted black the Lines are still long after a week and the biggest problem they have is making enough product.beating them down because of dumb old google or any other pc company is stupid they are in a class by themselves and should be judged that way . the noise about "smaller Margins" should be tempered by "HUGE VOLUME"

Apple's 3G iPhone: First Reviews Are So-So

first of all i like most others are almost always near a wi fi point of some kind and I assume the phone will use the wi fi when it can (as does the present one) there is a way to avoid massive web surfing bills from At&t (whom we hate!) and like all apple products they will get better in time because apple is always refining their ideas not just piling on "features" A'la Vista ( defined as a "far off never to be reached horizon") there is a form of hedonism that sees the lack of pleasure as pain so you end up always disappointed by reality. the rest of us are delighted that the i- phone experience just got faster and cheaper (plus I'm sure mr Pouge ran his phone constantly the rest of us actually do some work during the day and leave the thing in our pocket)

Apple's Leap from Mediocre to Marvelous

oh yeah, apple as macmatthews said is not Selling you a bag of shells and promises we leave that up to Vista. my original mac from 1992 still runs.(I own 6 )

Apple's Leap from Mediocre to Marvelous

Marketing and branding is all about creating tribes. when you buy a brand you join the tribe, you feel the cool when you see a fellow BMW driver or a nike wearer, Watches got ridiculously big so you could be sure your Michelle or Charioll would be noticed on your wrist. making the pod phones white was the marketing genus move instead of blending it into your hair it broadcast your tribal affiliation. Every time a pod owner sees white earphones he knows that person is having the same sort of great user experience and is warmed by the wisdom of their purchase. the next important thing in marketing Pride in ownership now get out of that pc tribe your obviously not proud to belong and come and play with the cool Kids. spring for 50 dollars and buy yourself a shuffle you will feel better for it.

'Best of Breed' Business Model a Chink in Apple’s Armor?

these commenters have it in a nutshell, you can put lipstick and nikes on that pig and it still is not going to fly because you will waste your precious time fighting viruses and looking foe dll's and installing drivers and dismissing messages like this "windows has determined that deleting this file may or may not affect programs that are installed on your drive or may be installed on your computer are you sure you want to delete this file" and of course the only button is "yes"

a dual boot would be the least of your problems

this kind of reminds me of a dog who gets fed half the time his master calls and beaten the other half. the dog comes when he calls but ears back cringing on his belly every windows user thinks the problem is he is too stupid to run the system right not that the system just does not run right

The Hidden Financial Impact of Apple's iPhone

another thing to think about is the income that having such a huge pile of cash brings in. Apple really does not need to buy any other companies. with outsourcing of its hardware manufacturing, aside from a fancy new headquarters i don't see that cash pile getting smaller any time soon. As my accountant used to say "The only thing better than sex is compound interest!"

Options Trader: Monday Outlook

says Philip Elmer-Dewitt at Fortune. Philip says that Jobs likely had the "Whipple" procedure, which often causes significant and permanent weight loss:

Along with the digestive problems, patients often lose 5% to 10% of their body weight after the procedure. Weight stabilizes within the first year or two for the vast majority of patients, says Dr. Dilip Parekh, chief of tumor and endocrine surgery at the University of Southern California, who has performed more than 100 Whipple procedures.

Apple's Balancing Act: 3G iPhone vs. Jobs' Health - Barron's

says Philip Elmer-Dewitt at Fortune. Philip says that Jobs likely had the "Whipple" procedure, which often causes significant and permanent weight loss:

Along with the digestive problems, patients often lose 5% to 10% of their body weight after the procedure. Weight stabilizes within the first year or two for the vast majority of patients, says Dr. Dilip Parekh, chief of tumor and endocrine surgery at the University of Southern California, who has performed more than 100 Whipple procedures.