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The former is illegal and is what gets people sent to prison. The latter is legal and even the IRS claims that it encourages all taxpayers to take full advantage of all of the provisions in the tax code for avoidance of taxes.]]> Tue, 21 May 2013 14:42:25 -0400
The former is illegal and is what gets people sent to prison. The latter is legal and even the IRS claims that it encourages all taxpayers to take full advantage of all of the provisions in the tax code for avoidance of taxes.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/976231?source=feed#comment-18173321 18173321
Apple is defending itself, not waging war.

Google is waging war and Google started the war by introducing Android and doing it in the way it has done, to divert the blame for theft away from itself and to those manufacturers who use Android instead of where it belongs, on Google.]]> Sat, 27 Apr 2013 13:37:53 -0400
Apple is defending itself, not waging war.

Google is waging war and Google started the war by introducing Android and doing it in the way it has done, to divert the blame for theft away from itself and to those manufacturers who use Android instead of where it belongs, on Google.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1375771/comments?source=feed#comment-18138581 18138581 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:51:40 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1364891/comments?source=feed#comment-18065701 18065701 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 03:13:00 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1356771/comments?source=feed#comment-17916541 17916541 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:26:05 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1356591/comments?source=feed#comment-17916061 17916061
Those who buy and use the apps are the main bottleneck / limiting factor.

A smartphone/tablet user has a similar challenge to that of someone browsing for what to watch on Apple TV, youtube, vimeo or simply cable television. Too many choices for one person to ever process. ]]> Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:01:09 -0400
Those who buy and use the apps are the main bottleneck / limiting factor.

A smartphone/tablet user has a similar challenge to that of someone browsing for what to watch on Apple TV, youtube, vimeo or simply cable television. Too many choices for one person to ever process. ]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/911851?source=feed#comment-16871441 16871441 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:04:45 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1299251/comments?source=feed#comment-16797591 16797591 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:45:03 -0400 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1248691/comments?source=feed#comment-15892961 15892961
You "can't open" an iPod, a Jawbone UP, a Fitbit or the Striiv devices to change their batteries either, but they are also very popular.]]> Tue, 05 Mar 2013 21:33:49 -0500
You "can't open" an iPod, a Jawbone UP, a Fitbit or the Striiv devices to change their batteries either, but they are also very popular.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/847671?source=feed#comment-15454461 15454461 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 20:18:56 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1210981/comments?source=feed#comment-15318581 15318581 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:32:32 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1210981/comments?source=feed#comment-15318361 15318361 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:28:46 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/837271?source=feed#comment-15255971 15255971
Jesse Livermore, when he was in his prime, would have caught the smell of strong, hidden hands behind much of the puzzling publicity during AAPL downtrend and especially recently. But Livermore preferred to buy at new highs, so he would stalk AAPL and would only buy when it breaks resistance at $705 again. And then, he would buy it by the truckload.]]> Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:01:06 -0500
Jesse Livermore, when he was in his prime, would have caught the smell of strong, hidden hands behind much of the puzzling publicity during AAPL downtrend and especially recently. But Livermore preferred to buy at new highs, so he would stalk AAPL and would only buy when it breaks resistance at $705 again. And then, he would buy it by the truckload.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/815111?source=feed#comment-14745031 14745031 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 11:26:58 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1164991/comments?source=feed#comment-14726961 14726961 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 23:12:55 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/805321?source=feed#comment-14629491 14629491 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 22:40:09 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1153961/comments?source=feed#comment-14545441 14545441 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:33:54 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1138331/comments?source=feed#comment-14527421 14527421 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 21:28:45 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1151911/comments?source=feed#comment-14490591 14490591 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 16:09:18 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1142911/comments?source=feed#comment-14468621 14468621
The acronym for dividend re-investment, DRIP, has a melancholy, somewhat depressed connotation. Appropriately to the context of a good stock with a depressed price.

But to paraphrase what a man who is psychiatrist who has become a very successful full time stock trader has said: Buy depression and sell elation.

Depression = low price, elation = high price.

Elementary, Mr. Watson.]]> Fri, 01 Feb 2013 19:44:18 -0500
The acronym for dividend re-investment, DRIP, has a melancholy, somewhat depressed connotation. Appropriately to the context of a good stock with a depressed price.

But to paraphrase what a man who is psychiatrist who has become a very successful full time stock trader has said: Buy depression and sell elation.

Depression = low price, elation = high price.

Elementary, Mr. Watson.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1146671/comments?source=feed#comment-14432381 14432381
Conversely: AMZN, if given the same P/E as AAPL, would have traded at about $0.78 per share today. Nice (if you're bearish on AMZN).]]> Thu, 31 Jan 2013 20:29:09 -0500
Conversely: AMZN, if given the same P/E as AAPL, would have traded at about $0.78 per share today. Nice (if you're bearish on AMZN).]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1135031/comments?source=feed#comment-14204741 14204741
My wife and I have had Microsoft PCs since DOS. When my 3 youngest children were in late grade school and high school, I got each of them their own, identical Hewlett Packard desktops and networked everything together. I was the household IT guy and would periodically need to defrag, recover from a crash, rescue a computer from something I'd never imagined one of my daughters would do with it, find and remove viruses, etc etc.

When one of my daughters was going to start college and I wanted to get her a laptop for college, I could envision being on the phone with her every few weeks, for the sake of her laptop maintenance or repair.

So... I decided not to get her a Microsoft laptop and sprung for the first Apple computer in my life. It was an iBook. She didn't need my help and it only took her a few moments to get it on the University network. All the Microsoft machine users had to consult University IT people and be verified free of viruses and as having all the latest updates before being allowed on the network.

She never had a single problem with that iBook until after 2 years and 10 months, when its hard drive crashed. I had been cheap and had gotten an iBook with minimum RAM, which forced its hard drive to do maximum work. But her iBook was still under Apple warranty and was repaired better than new and back to her 2 days later. I say "better than new," because when it needed warranty repair, I told her to have the Apple certified tech also add maximum RAM to her iBook while the hard drive was being replaced. A few years later she moved up to a Macbook Pro and sold her iBook for a good price on eBay.

When her younger sister started college I also got her an iBook, but got one with more than minimum RAM. 8 years or so later, that same iBook is still working with all its original parts.

So I switched from PC to Mac several years ago with no regrets. When I want to run a Microsoft-only program, I run it on my Mac on a Windows 7 virtual machine (Parallels) simultaneously while everything else is running on the same Mac on OS X. When that is done, OS X and Windows 7 each "think" they have the machine all to themselves, though they are both accessible and displayed on the monitor.

Before switching to Apple, I disliked it and argued with Apple users about why Microsoft was better. But that was also before Apple went to Unix via OS X.

Anyone who hates Apple is simply doing what is natural in the context of lack of first-hand experience and knowledge.]]> Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:59:51 -0500
My wife and I have had Microsoft PCs since DOS. When my 3 youngest children were in late grade school and high school, I got each of them their own, identical Hewlett Packard desktops and networked everything together. I was the household IT guy and would periodically need to defrag, recover from a crash, rescue a computer from something I'd never imagined one of my daughters would do with it, find and remove viruses, etc etc.

When one of my daughters was going to start college and I wanted to get her a laptop for college, I could envision being on the phone with her every few weeks, for the sake of her laptop maintenance or repair.

So... I decided not to get her a Microsoft laptop and sprung for the first Apple computer in my life. It was an iBook. She didn't need my help and it only took her a few moments to get it on the University network. All the Microsoft machine users had to consult University IT people and be verified free of viruses and as having all the latest updates before being allowed on the network.

She never had a single problem with that iBook until after 2 years and 10 months, when its hard drive crashed. I had been cheap and had gotten an iBook with minimum RAM, which forced its hard drive to do maximum work. But her iBook was still under Apple warranty and was repaired better than new and back to her 2 days later. I say "better than new," because when it needed warranty repair, I told her to have the Apple certified tech also add maximum RAM to her iBook while the hard drive was being replaced. A few years later she moved up to a Macbook Pro and sold her iBook for a good price on eBay.

When her younger sister started college I also got her an iBook, but got one with more than minimum RAM. 8 years or so later, that same iBook is still working with all its original parts.

So I switched from PC to Mac several years ago with no regrets. When I want to run a Microsoft-only program, I run it on my Mac on a Windows 7 virtual machine (Parallels) simultaneously while everything else is running on the same Mac on OS X. When that is done, OS X and Windows 7 each "think" they have the machine all to themselves, though they are both accessible and displayed on the monitor.

Before switching to Apple, I disliked it and argued with Apple users about why Microsoft was better. But that was also before Apple went to Unix via OS X.

Anyone who hates Apple is simply doing what is natural in the context of lack of first-hand experience and knowledge.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1092851/comments?source=feed#comment-14044421 14044421
January 17 came and went. Skyworks is scheduled to report earnings on January 30th. Did Skyworks reschedule the date of their earnings announcement, so as to have it occur after Apple's or did the author of this article get the January 17th date wrong??]]> Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:01:54 -0500
January 17 came and went. Skyworks is scheduled to report earnings on January 30th. Did Skyworks reschedule the date of their earnings announcement, so as to have it occur after Apple's or did the author of this article get the January 17th date wrong??]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/773711?source=feed#comment-14013041 14013041 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:07:09 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/article/1118571/comments?source=feed#comment-13842111 13842111 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:46:33 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/764241?source=feed#comment-13787131 13787131 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:36:07 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/762981?source=feed#comment-13786911 13786911 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:33:39 -0500 http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/762981?source=feed#comment-13786601 13786601
I chose that day and posted a notice to everyone, so none of my "friends" would think it was anything personal. The wonderful relief to be rid of it is still fresh in memory though it was years ago.]]> Wed, 16 Jan 2013 13:30:26 -0500
I chose that day and posted a notice to everyone, so none of my "friends" would think it was anything personal. The wonderful relief to be rid of it is still fresh in memory though it was years ago.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/currents/post/762981?source=feed#comment-13738971 13738971
I still have found no compelling reason to have one of the "F" (for Facebook) accounts.]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:53:23 -0500
I still have found no compelling reason to have one of the "F" (for Facebook) accounts.]]> http://seekingalpha.com/article/1109461/comments?source=feed#comment-13687781 13687781 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:07:14 -0500