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How Apple's Market Share Will Propel Stock to $500, Part 1

A lot of people are buying into Windows 7 hype right now. That was also the case in the early days of Vista.

Personally I think this is will be a very short lived phenomena. I own both Vista and Windows 7 machines, and as a software developer I understand both of them quite well.

Vista rightly got a bad reputation when it was released with clumsy security features and some performance issues. Pretty much all of these issues have been corrected and if you configure it right it is a pretty decent, stable OS.

Windows 7 from a user perspective is really no better than Vista SP3, with the right configuration options selected. And Windows 7 still has to go through the teething pains that any new MS OS does - it will really not be something you would give to a user population until at least the first service pack comes out a year from now.

In that year the blush will come off the rose and people will realize that as usual that Microsoft is really a marketing company at this point in its life cycle. If Microsoft was really an innovative company there would be just one version of Windows 7, and it would be the 64 bit platform.

At best this is a non-event for Apple, and it could easily turn into a catalyst for Apple growth when people once again realize that Windows 7 is nothing special.

On Oct 23 10:39 AM D_Virginia wrote:

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Why Android Is Gaining Ground on Apple

I am a software engineer who has written applications for many systems; Mac Windows Linux Solaris DEC IBM mainframes and minis etc.

I dislike the iPhone business model. It does not allow me to write and distribute the apps I want to. It limits users to certain hardware types. I lets Apple pull customer unfriendly tricks like closing the battery compartment and banning applications, and restricting the phone to one service provider.

Yes I know that you can get better usability with this approach but the price for this is too high. Ultimately the Android type of approach will attract more applications and end users because the variety of hardware choices will be able to address more use cases than the closed iPhone platform will.

Whether or not Android will dethrone the iPhone is an open question, but what is not an open question is that sooner or later an operating system that runs on multiple hardware platforms from different vendors will become the preferred platform for smart phone customers.

As far as open source goes, as a developer I prefer working on an open source platform but that doesn't mean that I necessarily think that an open source platform is the key to phone operating system success. If Android succeeds it won't be because of open source so much as the business opportunities it offers developers and phone makers.

Microsoft's Debacle – and Google's Challenge

The problems with this article is that the author has missed the point of Android. It is an open platform and the result is that there are 3rd party applications that support a variety of tasks.

Take a look at MyLink for Android for example.

Apple: Set to Double Again

The main thing that I see as a risk to buying AAPL is Steve Job's health.

If Steve starts having problems that multiple could thin out quickly.

Microsoft May Be Able to Halt Apple's Music Monopoly

If Microsoft actually makes any headway with this subscription plan Apple will simply offer their own plan.

Only they will do it better, and people will still be able to use there iPods to listen to music.

Which is the point in the first place. The main reason Apple sells music is to sell iPods.

As a basis to make investment decisions this makes no sense at all.

Running Strong Again: The Four Horsemen of Technology

Next bubble (after treasuries crash):

Energy technology.