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Can Apple Stop the Android?

Much of what you write is right, except the comparison to the "Macintosh-PC Wars of the 1990s".

Thankfully we are No longer in the 90's and so many things are different. What is Apple always "chastised" for being a closed system and maintaining tight interwoven control? What are other companies/organization... are thought of this way? Coke, McDonalds, BMW, Fisher & Paykel and many others are never mentioned?

Competition is good, nay, great for any industry. Apple has demonstrated that when a product is "closed" for a good enough reason, it can be successful, even if it did take 10-15 years for people to realize.

Piper Jaffray's bullish 45 million estimate of iPhones sold in 2010, Mac sales well over 10 million, iPod sales estimates of 40 million - 3 major product lines resulting in 100 million sales in 2009, I would just say - not too shabby!

Motorola's Droid Comes in Peace - For Now

Oh yeah, add to all "full-court-press marketing that only Apple has previously done, complete with prime-time TV ads, billboards, and online advertising" seekingalpha.com/artic...

Motorola's Droid Comes in Peace - For Now

Hmmm, You state "That intense brand marketing takes some time to get the bandwagon moving". Is that what you really feel or think?

Seems to me, that could not be further from the truth in reference to the iPhone! Maybe this will "remind" you!

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or any of these

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Apple's App Store Numbers Continue to Amaze

Bruce, you make some valid points, enjoyed your posting!

With Apple, There's a Fine Line Between Paying a Premium and Being a Sucker

Wow, maybe they aughta up your salary a buck and a quarter a week, and you too can afford one!!

The App Store Changes Apple's Mission

Great article, I agree 100%

Apple's Snow Leopard Takes Two Steps Back

Get a life and suck it up! Things move forward, there are NO guarantees of compatibility as OS progress. Or, get, you can switch to Windows and deal with the thousands of incompatibilities and issues! Your choice - is less more, or...

Sorry Zune, Apple's Won MP3 Market

As mentioned, you can fairly easily watch your iPod using an available cable. As far as music, just download Simply Media app and the accompanying software for your computer and voila, simple as 1, 2, 3!

Microsoft: Can the Zune HD Take Down the King?

Hmmm, Lets see. WHO CARES?????

Roger McNamee - Judgment Day on Pre vs. iPhone

I absolutely, could not have but it any better! Bravo, great article!!

Palm: Who Needs iTunes? How About PalmTunes!

Agree wholeheartedly with FJ and Jon T. How many others have tried (sorry don't have the time or inclination to investigate exact numbers) and failed MISERABLY!

Sure at s__t Pal ain't gonna be the one to do it... Besides anything, where would they get the money to develop this, Dell???
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iPhone: Smartphone War Just Got Hotter

Not sure if this the UK style of writing, but I find your text disjointed, your comments a bit brash, but more importantly baseless and often without merit.

"The war is hotting up", does not quite cut it in the US, maybe it is the Queens english?? The article seems more like it was a Google Translation?

Three Strikes from Apple and Palm May Be Out

Hope that Anthony C and other portfolio does not reflect their opinions, or they are not planning to put any kids through college on the BIG gains they are hoping to make on a DOA company.

To compare Apple and Palm is ludicrous! Palm is maybe a 1 trick pony, Apple's 28 Billion in the bank could buy palm, and distinguish the brand without missing a heartbeat.

If the prospects were so "good" for Palm and the pre, don't you think Balmer in his almighty wisdom would have snapped them up? Even he knows there is no investment there...


On May 21 10:15 AM Anthony C wrote:

> How soon we forget that mighty Apple would have disappeared about
> a decade ago if it wasn't for an infusion of funds from none other
> than Microsoft! And what saved them after that desperate measure?
> A single product: the iPod. If the iPod hadn't become a hit I think
> that Apple would have become just another PC clone maker. Palm has
> the opportunity to make a big recovery and looks like the Pre is
> a device to do it for them. Palm is not dead, they are just Apple
> 12 years ago.

Three Strikes from Apple and Palm May Be Out

Could not have put it any better....

Dusty old Treo in closet, guess it is time to donate to my favorite Green Landfill, or maybe keep for the museum of defunct companies :-)

Kindle's Here - Close the Book on Barnes & Noble

OK, agree with most of what you say, but need to really throw one thing into the mix - The new but yet unannounced Apple tablet/netbook/newton gizmo/gadget/computer/...

The implications are huge for the Kindle (most number show sales of iphone/ipod touch to be 60 times greater) as a device, and for the presumption of the demise of Barnes & Noble and your corner newsstand.

I don't think one needs to be a soothsayer to predict that in 5 or maybe 10 years most physical (aka paper) reading will be a thing of the past!