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Are Microsoft Users More Gullible When It Comes to Online Advertising?

They are MS bozos. What more do you need to know? They click in their sleep.

Competitors Gang Up on the Likes of Amazon, Apple: Strange Bedfellows

As usual, a whole lot of words saying precisely .......

....... nothing.

Well done Joel. You did it again...... again.

The Power of Instant Approval

Really, if you write here because you think your words are worth reading, then you need to look in the mirror. I think your talents are needed on the Betamax users' blogsite.
Fool, for wasting my valuable time.
I gave you the benefit of the doubt. You failed.
Another loser on Seeking Alpha.

Motorola's Droid Comes in Peace - For Now

Carl is a marketeer. The advice to Apple, not to underestimate future revisions of Android phone is good advice. The paid for hype surrounding the Android launch cannot compare with the unpaid 180+/- days of unceasing blasts of coverage that Apple secured for the iPhone simply by pre-announcing it six months before release .... and then keeping silent till launch day. The tension, caused by the lack of further hard info, led to manic levels of discussion, speculation and press coverage. That is why there were, and remain, thousands who will queue for the iPhone. It is the mystery factor stupid. It's the 'I gotta have it' craze.
Of course, it helps that Apple has a superb pedigree and an unmatched reputation for quality, support and user-centricity.
btw
Welcome back Carl. You are the chief reason for my visiting SA.
Please do consider a regular personal blog. You will gather a following.

Exploiting the Downside of the Markets

Where did you learn English? In America? What does 'would of... mean? Even K-12 kids in far distant lands know better than this.
Otherwise, quite a good article, if a rehash of widely understood basics.

Did iPhone Sales Pass 10M Already?

@ijah420 - admire your passion
@ A@60$-Fool! Buy buy buy. Never mind the rollercoaster due to Repube incompetence, AAPL is just about to switch on the turbo they've been spiining up.
The marvellous thing is that Apple has everything it needs to blitz the markets its in for at least a decade, likely much longer as others will have to play catch and, as MicroSpoof has shown that is well nigh impossible even with all the copiers running at max I mean of course the markets in - Computers, mobilie media and cellphones and who-knows-what-next? If the PC and shortsell zits don't see that, it has to be because they they choose the rectum view of the world. eeesh!

Crop of New Smartphones Will Compete With iPhone

Your article is pointless. Tell us something that is not common knowledge. The more expensive things in life tend to be more easily bought by the more well heeled among us. So what's new? If you cannot appreciate what is now common knowledge - that the iPhone is so very very much more than a smartphone (as it used to be defined pre iPhone) that it is pointless to compare it with anything out there now, gPhone included. If you don't appreciate that simple game-changing fact, and further understand that it will take even the best of the also-rans at least 4 to 5 years to match the iPhone as it is today, then you should become a beet farmer. If you think that the app store is something special already, despite the variability of what's on offer there, don't you realise that there are totally new apps waiting to be conceived and developed that will raise the iPhone's functionality as a handheld computer beyond what it is today and most importantly, new app categories that add totally unexpected functionality to its capabilities as a phone ... and I am not talking about anything we could imagine right now. I refer to altogether new killer apps that add usefulness to telephone or comms functions beyond what we already have today. On day one, the iPhone had visual voicemail - a real boon to anyone who hated guessing who had left messages. It was so good it has been widely copied. Look next for apps and added functions that take us into areas of usefulness that others will find it hard to copy on their platforms. This has been hinted at by SJ and we can expect this kind of differentiating strategy to be implemented on Macs, iPods and iPhones. When you have a scalable OS, an ecosystem and tight integration of concepts and designs, you cannot be copied except in a superficial way ... things that (sort of) seem to be the same but are much more crude in their execution, simplicity and ease of use usw.
Who do I bill for your education?

Jonathan Ive: More Valuable to Apple than Steve Jobs?

@TimWillis-do get a life. The App Store is a godsend for developers. If you think that your petition will put developers off the platform, just watch what happens over the next year. No one else has created such an opportunity for developers large and very very small to compete on a level playing field. If you build it, they will come. Apple did build it. AND THEY CAME AND WILL KEEP DOING SO. Any other entrants into Apps markets are simply also-rans.... no vision but great at copycatting. Huh. Petition indeed! What a joke.

Don't Close the Line on Nokia Just Yet

Err. I am an outright Apple fanboy since 1978 and I don't live in the USA thanks.
Nokia is a great company in its way but how can you compare Symbian with OSX when Nokia beds with others eg first with Linux and now MS?
If they want to thrive in the future, and to be sure the market is large enough to support more than one winner, they have got to understand that what used to be good enough (pre iPhone) just won't cut it in the future. Their problem is similar to the dilemma that MS faces. IT will take the best part of a decade for any player to catch up with OS X and where will the Apple ecosystem be by that time. 7 years ago there was no iPod. A year + ago there was no iPhone. Whither next in the years to come?