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Apple to Open 50 More Stores - Let's Be Careful, Steve

I will like to have another one where I live, which is served by only one store in the greater Sacramento area. The store is small and is crammed with people, everyday of the week. The noise level is just unbearable. On the other hand, I can see why New York city needs several large ones because of the influx of tourists flying in from Europe who have made Apple store the first must visit and shop place on their visit to the US. The same hold true for the three Apple stores in Honolulu which are always filled with people, half of them from Asia.

Expect Apple's December Earnings to Grow 37%

As long as the iPhones are sold without wi-fi capability in China, the market will not take off but the grey market for an unaltered iPhone will continue on (the Hong Kong iPhone market will be selling very well). This is bad for China Unicom but not for Apple because the company will still be recording a sale.


On Nov 10 11:39 AM Advill wrote:

> A review of your numbers based in the DISASTER that Apple is facing
> in China nowdays is important.
>
> Is incredible how they losed ground before the chinese realities,
> the China team of Apple is not getting any result.

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

Porsche is one of the few car makers which did not bleed money this year. Every other car makers did, even Toyota.


On Oct 23 12:35 PM Shaftsinker wrote:

> This is absolute hysteria.
>
> You talk about a 9.4% market share as immense room for growth...
> and then comlietely contradict yourself and say they already have
> 91% of the luxury market as if that's a good thing!
>
> Clearly the luxury market is theirs. And you have to remember that
> 9% represents high powered PCs that Mac can't really compete with
> on a performance basis and isn't their market anyways.
>
> If I told you Porsche's accounted for 90% of cars sold over $60,000
> but only 10% of all cars sold, would you really be interpreting that
> as room for growth?

Apple's iPhone Gets a Foot in China's Door with China Unicom

I do not think that Apple is that hung up on market share to go after the low hanging fruits. There are quite a large population (relative to our population) of well to do Chinese who are into buying high quality goods. The number of Gucci and luxurious stores in the big cities of China is quite impressive. I have visited the country twice within the past two years and I can tell you that there will be people buying Macs and iPhones, otherwise Apple will not even bother to work its way into that huge market.


On Aug 30 10:00 AM Constable Odo wrote:

> It would be nice for Apple to get a few more retail stores in China,
> just to let the customers play with some of their products and have
> a presence. I entirely understand that Macs are likely priced well
> out of the typical consumer's range, but there's still the iPods
> that are likely affordable.
>
> I see analysts are saying that Dell will do well in China with their
> $300 computers and Windows 7 along with that mini-something Android-powered
> cellphone. It'll be hard for Apple to compete for market share with
> that really cheap stuff that the Chinese seem to favor.

My New iPhone 3GS: Beyond Awesome

It is a location problem. It sucks in New York and great in Sacramento, based on my experience.


On Aug 03 09:48 AM vassar wrote:

> I don't understand the problems people have with ATT. I had Verzion
> beforehand and now ATT and have not had any problems, both in rural
> and in metropolitan areas.

Apple's Advantage over the Blackberry: Way More Memory

The Blackberry Storm simply cannot compete against the iPhone on another front. Apple virtual keyboard can input a variety of special characters (such as à, é è,û, ô which is used in a variety of European languages) just by shifting your fingertip touch after selecting the relevent character and reliably delivers
handwriting recognition in Chinese characters input (great news for the Chinese and even Japanese population). The international allure of iPhone simply cannot be ignored because the competition between these two companies will ultimately be determined by its usefulness in the global market.

Apple SEC Investigation: Rotten to Core

I think the SEC should investigate who are using Jobs' illness to short the stock down to where it is now. Nah. These speculators make me sick and the investors of Apple stock should instead concentrate on how well Apple is run even in these days when one of its leader is very sick. It tells me that the rest of the company is functioning just fine.

It's What Apple's Not Doing That Has Analysts Worried

The analysts are concerned. Big deal. Most of them just do not have enough brain to understand what kind of business Apple is running. The reason prices are not coming down is because people are still willingly buying Macs. Ever been to an Apple store lately. Always full of people, whether it is Christmas or not. Unlike the commodity priced PC, people who insist on a Mac are people who are attracted by the software you can run on it, iLife is one of them and it does not run on windows. Moreover, with an Intel Mac you can easily run several different OSes on one machine and people are willing to pay a higher price for a machine just because of this feature. As to the drop in the number of Canadians buying iPhone, this has a lot more to do with the outrageous contract price that Rogers charges and Canadians simply will not stand for it. A lot of them have expressed an interest in getting an iPhone, but will simply not pay for a contract with Roger. It is just sad that Apple could not get another telco to carry the iPhone there but I supposed with a small population, it is harder to get another telco with the kind of network infrastructure in place and so Roger is free to exercise its monopolistic power to the hilt.

Recession Presents Challenge to Apple's Mac That Competes on Features, Not Price

I do not know why people still continue to force Apple business to model itself along the rest of the PC world.
Apple has never gotten itself into the cheap PC space because it does not need to. It is doing well competing against Dell and HP in the high end category where it is gaining market share. Why should it move into that low cost arena which is going to be a money loosing proposition because Apple genius bar will loose out trying to service all these low cost units. The point for Apple is not to go after market share and fight over the crumbs, but to make sure that it keeps the quality of its brand intact. Make sure that its operating system is kept at the cutting edge and is perfectly integrated with its hardware. People who cares about quality will pay for it. Just imagine BMW trying to go after market share by putting out cheap beamers. It will be the surest way to trash its brand name altogether. And the Apple brand should not be trifled with like this. Besides, Apple has cheaper and very nice computing devices that are selling very well. They are called the iPod Touch and they can do quite a lot of nifty tricks, including handwriting Chinese characters input of all things!!!!!!!! It also has a more expensive version of this pocket size computing wonder and it is called the iPhone. Nah, Apple is doing very well and must not move in the direction you are advocating.