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Apple Could Crush Competitors With a $99 iPhone

This moron doesn't even know that Apple sells the iPhone for OVER $550!

Yes, the carriers pay Apple that price, then THEY mark it down to $200 and hope to recover the difference via the subscription fees over the life of the contract, and customer retention, and customer aquistion from rivals.

So, IF THE CARRIERS WANTED TO, they could "make the iPhone $99" tomorrow morning.

Why do these morons write financial articles when they don't have a CLUE about the underlying assumptions they seem to think are so brilliant?

Sam, get a real job where you MIGHT have some expertise, I hear McDonalds is looking for burger flippers right now.....

Apple’s Guiding Light

If AAPL reported normally, without provisions to NOT SHOW all the real earnings, a requirement forced upon them by Sarbanes Oxley, since they give free upgrades to the software on the product that forces them to split the earnings over EIGHT quarters, so a real $1 earned NOW, will be reported at 12 cents for eight quarters.

Anyway, here is the REAL numbers as released by AAPL to show what they would have been without the subscription accounting forced on them by the government.

NOTE: -> They REALLY "made" $2.69 per diluted share, MUCH MORE than the reported $1.26. This means that in a complete financial hellhole, an economy that is tanking......they BEAT THE STREET by ...

DRUMROLL HERE...... 142% !

And that money is RIGHT NOW all in the bank, meaning they will have a built in cushion over the next eight quarters come what may, AND they now have over $24 BILLION in the bank for whatever needs come up.

Here is the complete chart:

i38.tinypic.com/2emn15...

Apple Reduces iPhone Planned Builds, Suppliers Could Suffer

Pacific Crest knows NOTHING CONCRETE about production runs, they have a track record that sucks, and even IF the fictional "facts" are true, this is a STUNNING accomplishment at the LOWER rates, and almost unbelievable at the higher ones.

Apple's Biggest Rumor: iPod or Jobs?

Steve, come out in a FATSUIT, then peel it off, drop to the floor and do five one handed pushups...then jump to your feet, yelling ..."ONE MORE THING..." and blow them all out with whoops of laughter!

Apple's Problems - Bad to the Core?

--->>"Can the House of Jobs get back on track? Despite major problems in the last 18 months, Apple still tops the ACSI’s customer satisfaction survey — ten points higher than closest competitor, Dell. And sales are robust."<<---

Therein lies the truth.

Trolling for hits here?

Whenever you have new products...OR ... old products. Some will have problems, some won't last, some will need replaced.

Contrast the LOVE that consumers have with APPL, to the FUD you are spewing in this article. Do you REALLY think that people would be this passionate about Fords, or Dells? No. People know that they are cheap crap, and they live with the problems, KNOWING that they bought cheap crap.

With Apple, they expect PERFECTION, and when that doesn't happen, they bitch and BITCH and MOAN.

Eventually the problems are fixed, replaced, or repaird.

And they BUY THE NEXT Apple product, some even standing in lines to do so.

Then they have the FUN of bitching AGAIN that the newest product or service isn't PERFECT.

See, they expect PERFECT, with the DELLS and HP's, they expect crap.

If you cannot reconcile your whinefest with this, you have written an article without honest merits.

>>>>Apple still tops the ACSI’s customer satisfaction survey — ten points higher than closest competitor, Dell. And sales are robust.<<<<...

That is really the be all, and end all, isn't it?

When To 'Believe the Hype' of a New Product

Bull.

Apple did NOT "hype" the original iPhone, when asked what premarketing approach Apple had for the phone, Steve Jobs answered "We had NONE."

Same with the new iPhone.

ZERO, hyping. In fact, there is hardly a company around that goes to such massive lengths to ASSURE THAT there will be NO advance information on a product prior to it's release.

So, the title is misleading, and the article is PURE SHAM where the author is either clueless, or trolling for hits.

Apple: Dow Jones Mulls the iPhone

Oh my....Caesar is going to cross the Rubicon?

Will Erik become a cheerleader with the rest of the Fanboyz? { ... or maybe stop listening to certain unnamed "anal"-ists? }

Yes, Virginia, there really IS a Santa Clause in Cupertino!

Apple: BMO Capital Raises Estimates on Strong Mac Sales

Ignore dieuwer, troll. See his entire comments listing here:

seekingalpha.com/user/...

Apple Hires Segway's CTO

Check out his historical comments:

TOTALLY negative, on all points, at all times on APPL. Must work for RIMM.

seekingalpha.com/user/...

Apple Hires Segway's CTO

{{Signs of top: screaming people in front of apple stores }}

Economics 101.

Signs of a TOPPING, *shares* are highly in demand, overstepping the actual growth of the firms economics.

Economics 102.

Signs of a market shift. *PRODUCT* cannot meet overwhelming demand real live customers panicking trying to BUY, BUY, BUY.

Methinks you flunked Elementary Economics.

... or you were short and just had visions of your nest egg going poof.

Bernstein Raises Apple's Target on Higher iPhone Forecast

Toni is a GENIUS! Really.

To actually predict a "TARGET" for a stock forcasting ONE YEAR ahead that it made the SAME DAY of the prediction!

One for the HALL OF FAME FOR THE BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS!

Toni-Toni-Toni

{ Eric, whatever the reason, your flogging of this anal-ist, has gone from interesting, to amusing, to PATHETIC now....}

A Real iPhone Challenger - Barron's

Actually this is a good thing, really.

The more the "hounds" are chasing Apple, the more the boyz in Cupertino have to ACCELERATE things.

If they lose a few sales to the "hounds' GREAT, make Jobs and Ives SWEAT a little I say!

{ disclosure: long 2600 shrs AAPL }

Not Buying It: Sanford Analyst Toni Sacconaghi's iPhone Hit Job

This link is better, it has them all and they cycle through automatically.

Tell me this isn't the PERFECT way to take on RIMM?

www.youtube.com/watch?...;feature=related

Not Buying It: Sanford Analyst Toni Sacconaghi's iPhone Hit Job

U know....I just had a BRILLIANT IDEA! { ©™ }

One of the most clever and fun advertising campaigns ever done was the "HELLO, I'M A PC" series, where you have two guys and a whitescreen and they interact. One is "Mr. PC" who is all business, or wants to be, he distains "cool" and everything has to be all business. The other guy "Mr. Mac" is laid back, iconic, and gets to play the straight man, in this series, the real hero is Mr. PC, as he struggles for respect, for coolness, and agonizes about the frustrations of being on a PC platform, especially with VISTA, the crapware that Microsoft spent seven years creating.

Now, APPLE pay attention here, EXPAND the concept. Do another series where you have "Mr. MiniKeyboard" VS "Mr. iPhone" and you can play off that interaction, the PC guy is struggling with thumbs and the like, the cool Apple guy is surfing the net, setting up a date with a hot number, and running all the neat programs that are here now, and will EXPAND exponentially!

This IS A GOOD IDEA Steve, get someone to flesh it all out.

In case you want to see the entire series of INCREDIBLY CLEVER ads that feature the interaction between Mr. PC and Mr. Mac, the link below will take you to a listing where you can view them all right now.

www.youtube.com/watch?...

{ disclosure, VERY long with 2600 shrs AAPL }

Not Buying It: Sanford Analyst Toni Sacconaghi's iPhone Hit Job

Time OUT!

One - the iPhone is a GIZMO, a gadget, a widget, just a machine.

So what? The Asians churn those out by the gazillion, for pennies too, I might add.

ANYONE, I repeat, anyone can order up a gizmo, and that includes Apple. Thank goodness, the GIZMO ain't the ballgame here.

When the iPod came out, I was using other Mp3 players, and I resisted being sucked into the "Apple Quagmire' of pay for everything, at the time I was so assured how "smart" I was, that I considered iPodders to be the equivalent of rap music likers, moron's and losers.

Then my broker, Ameritrade offered a free iPod for some extra business, I took it, thinking, "hey, it's FREE, so what do I have to lose, I'm just going to give it to the 17 year old son, and he can look cool with the other morons in the iPod world."

However, he was off at camp when it came in, so for two weeks I "messed around" with the gizmo...darn, it was SO easy to use, it did look cool, something I had never given any thought to, and the EASE of use when I hooked it up to the iTunes store astounded me. I love PODCASTS, for my bible studies, news, and commentaries...and one or two clicks, and all my PODCASTS were there daily, and that was neat. And I saw the store had movies, so I purchased a few, COOL, I could see them on the computer { that was before I got really into things and bought another one for me, a video iPod that allowed me to port them over to my big screen and watch them there }

So...time passed. I got me an iPod video, another FUN product, then I started looking at Apple seriously, being an old timer, who owned an Apple II ages ago, but exclusively WindOZE since....and I took a leap and got the HUGE 24" Apple iMac, and DARN that was easy, I was up and running within 15 minutes of opening the box, NO configurations...shees... where is the "fun" in spending hours getting your new computer to work on a network, print, and hook into this and that? Everything just worked!

Then the MacBook Air, I thought, that might be cool too, and I ordered one on day one, and I adore it.

Then the AUTOMATIC backups, I tried, honestly before, but that was such a hassle before, and the day the new Time Capsule, combo router with "N" { super fast } wireless and 500G storage, that would automatically back up the desktop AND air laptop, without me even remembering anything.

So the stores? Can't even get IN one around here, they are jammed from morning to evening.

So, here we are, two years later, and I'm the owner now of THREE iPods, one desktop, two laptops, two routers, tons of FANTASTIC easy to use software for video, productivity, and presentations, all from Apple.

And it STARTED with one FREE iPod.

I've spent $10,000 and would do it all again in a heartbeat. AND...I've talked most of the family, most of my friends, into dabbling with Apple too, and one by one, they too are becoming fanatics.

So...

It IS NOT about the GIZMO, it IS about the SYSTEM, from the delivery and ordering, to free shipping, to georgeous packaging, to EASE of use, POWER to get things done, backup with the GENIUS BAR at the local stores, and the GREATLY expanding ECOSYSTEM they call Apple today.

When the ANAL-ists, "get that" and STOP wetting their beds over this or that GIZMO, and how other companies GIZMO's compete, they might finally see what is going on. But given the near OBSESSION they have with trashing everything apple, and the endless speculation about Job's health...you would think the company would fold instantly if he took a week off for vacation.

This is now a JUGGERNAUGHT, daily ripping into WinDOZE and VISTA crap, and getting stronger and stronger and now the WORLD is going to get a taste of the ecosystem called Apple.

Think for a second. How many CRACKBERRY heads have you seen standing in LINE ALL NIGHT to buy the newest? And that is the NORM over in the Apple world, they have a LOVE for the company, they are ADDICTED to the products.

And THAT is the story that never seems to make it to anything connected with the Street and it's affiliates.

Toni, Toni, Toni?