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Garmin's Future Is Just Too Cloudy

Garmin makes great products and has tried very hard to provide the best databases to go with it. However, their map updates are the weak point in a market where consumers expect current accurate information. How many times will a consumer follow Garmin instructions to a closed business, different business or empty lot before they no longer rely on them. The answer is once or maybe twice but not three times. As a long time Garmin user, I no longer rely on it to find where I want to go, but still use it for navigation. I don't know of any way to tell Garmin when I find an error in their database.

Garmin would be better off working with Apple and Google to:

1. Bring Garmin to the iPhone.
2. Bring Google to the Garmin products.
3. Form a new paradigm in GPS positioning products that provides accurate and current information via live search and updates with ratings from other users.

Consumers have gotten over the amazing idea of navigating by GPS and now expect more from mobil devices. Can Garmin deliver?

Microsoft's Mobile Misfortune

I think of MSFT and I think of Steve Ballmer....
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OK, anyone out there think "innovation" or "excitement" right after you read his name?

I Didn't think so.

Apple, Google, Microsoft: A Tale of Three Earnings Reports

To sum up Microsoft's business model in one sentence:

Nobody really wants us, but everybody needs us.

Time will tell just how wrong they are.

Apple and Google: Changing My Mind

To those that bought into Apple in the $180 range... Years ago, I bought in at $69, it soon went up to around $165 and split. I was on cloud nine for only a short time because it dropped during the telecom bust all the way down to around $13. I felt lucky at the time and tried to lower my basis per share by buying on the way down. I never did buy at the bottom, but now am sitting on about 1200% gain. The lesson learned -- don't try to time Apple stock. Either buy in for the long term based on fundamentals or leave it alone. Set a sell point that you will be happy with and stick with it. I made a lot of money simply by selling half my shares every time it went up by 210%.

Buy, Sell or Hold: Apple's Cohesive Strategy to Survive and Thrive

Why is it that nobody ever talks about the "Jaguar Premium Pricings" or the "Porsch Tax". Please realize that Apple computers are the Jaguars and Porsches of the computer world. If you can afford one buy it, if not buy something cheaper. Either way, you are getting pretty much what you pay for.

Jaguar and Porsch do not use Yugo parts or cheap seat covers and Apple does not use low end components or cr*ppy software. The days of having to be a geek to run a home computer are gone. Nobody wants to be nagged about it either, thus the great failure of Vista. Apple computers are easier to use, more productive, and more user friendly and fun than any others on the planet.

The real story about APPL is about how more and more people worldwide are finding the money to buy a premium computer at a premium price. So far, regardless of economic conditions!

Replacing AIG in the Dow: Google? Cisco? Apple?

If APPL does get in dow index fund owners will get a gift horse. $130 is a steal for this stock.