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10 Reasons Not to Buy Apple

One of the dumbest articles on Apple ever.

"No room to grow in wireless market" ? The smartphone market is one the fastest expanding markets around. Apple sold more iPhone 3GS in a shorter time, 1 million in a weekend although launched in fewer countries in a recession than the 3G. People are upgrading from normal cell to smart phones. People changing from Samsung, Nokia etc to iPhone. The mobile computing market, small powerful computers like the iPhone, iPod Touch and the rumored iTablet are the next big thing in computing. While others are saying it's equivalent to the birth of the PC and internet revolutions you've got "no room to grow". Forbes: "Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar estimates Apple shipped 6.8 million phones in the June quarter alone" , remember when the iPhone first came out Apple hoped to sell 10 million a year.

You say "Apple's slice of the U.S. computer market fell to 8% in the fourth quarter of 2008, from 9.5% in the third quarter of 2008, according to Forbes (source)." Did you actually read the data that's been coming out the last week or so? Morgan Stanley : " "Apple began to outperform the broader commercial PC segment -- with commercial Mac shipments up 25% month-over-month in May versus market growth of just 1%," That doesn't even fully take into account the spectacular sales of the new Macbooks, the new 13" Macbook Pro is selling out. Apple Insider: "Apple's newly-coined 13-inch MacBook Pros appear to be off to a hot start, with the company reportedly having difficulty keeping some of the new models in stock as it enters the heart of the back-to-school buying season. In a note to clients Tuesday, Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster pointed out that the Apple online store is currently reflecting lead times of 7 to 10 business days for the faster of the two 13-inch MacBook Pros. He notes this is the most extensive delay affecting the company's 13-inch notebook models ever.

The analyst, which regularly tracks and records lead times for products on the Mac maker's online store, said he had to look back more than two years into his records to find similar delays, and even then they spanned just 5 to 7 business days. "

As for iPod Saturation. Many people are shifting to the higher priced iPod Touch due to the thousands of apps available. Yesterday numerous articles e.g. at least 3 articles on Zdnet (a PC oriented site) alone! said that the Touch if it gets the rumored camera (Tech blogger Michael Arrington reported Monday that Apple has placed orders for a "massive number" of camera modules for the iPod.) it will be a 'disruptive', a category killer. Read Forbes "Why Apple Could Kill Your Camera". In short a camera equipped Touch will sell like hotcakes.

Won't bother to comment on the rest but the above is enough to show how poorly researched this article is.