Dan Poarch

Apple's Market Value to Surpass IBM, Intel

I think the whole point is that the iPhone will cannibalize iPod sales. The iPod will lose favor at some point, why not lose favor to Apple's own product line? Apple has a lot more in the pipeline. If Apple relied on iPods it would be named Motorola and the iPod would be named RAZR.

The very fact that Apple has set out to top the iPod should be comfort enough. Why the fear of flagging iPod growth? It'll happen no matter what, why not pat Apple on the back for being the first one in line to kill the iPod? Even better, apparently the iPod is going to start looking/acting more like the iPhone by year's end. Perhaps the iPod will just continue to grow because they're paying attention and growing the product wisely?

Don't complain that Apple is refusing to act like Motorola or Dell, invest in the fact that they don't.

iPhone Unpacked

Another slightly interesting tid bit concerning Samsung and Apple: They seem to firewalled at the consumer level.

Not wanting to spring for an iPhone, but badly needing a new cell phone, I've been investigating the various Samsung phone offerings and only two of them, not available through my carrier of course, are sync-able via iSync on OSX. So, somehow Samsung makes parts for the iPhone and Apple buys their chips, but they aren't aggressive about making their products work together.

I'm sure I can find a hack until iSync gets updated in the late summer or fall, but still, it's evidence that they aren't totally in bed with each other. For whatever that's worth...