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Apple's Upcoming Leopard Release: As Full of Secret Features as the iPhone?

As to what might be hidden and in store for us, I cannot help but wonder about a speech recognition feature to the iPhone.

Clearly, using the touch "keys" for telephoning ought to be simple enough, but the QWERTY keyboard, even if it is as easy to use as various folks have said, seems to be somewhat obsolete in an iPhone for creating simple emails.
Why not a speech recognition aspect to the email sending that would make it completely easy to use--no pudgy finger problems at all, even for the pudgiest of fingers.

The Decline of the PC: Computers No Longer a Growth Industry

An Addedum to my comment above:

YOu can see from your world wide figures the same trend as in USA. ONLY Dell has gone down year over year...which with it's large share of market has skewed results towards neutral or slowgrowth. On the contrary, worldwide you can see HP, Toshiba, and even Acer with double digit growth in the 20% and above range. Similarly in the USA figures I cites in my comment above, ONLY DELL has declined, with Apple, Toshiba and HP all gaining handsomely year over the year.

The question is NOT the PC industry, but a closer look at what Dell [alone among manufacturers in decline[ is doing wrong and what the others,perhaps indicated by Apple and HP, are doing right. This 'trend' of which you speak, according to your own numbers at any rate, is not a "PC thng" but a "DELL thing".

Apple: Putting 'Soft' Mac Sales In Perspective

f you look at what happened in the US between the 3rd and 4th quarters in computer sales, you do see that the Major Trend was for Dell to lose "units shipped"..and other vendors to gain by taking their share.


These, I believe . are Gartner quarterly US data, 3rd vs 4th of 06, posted on one of the blogs last week [I'm sure you know which]...Perhaps on MacDailyNews




More precisely [in thousands] Dell lost 1,042. Where did this go?

Well, of the 1042 units HP picked up 566 units.

Gateway gained none, itself losing 7 units.

Toshiba picked up 101 units.

While little Apple picked up 194 of the units shipped.

The difference [1042 & 7 = 1049 LOST minus 566 minus 101 minus 194 =871 GAINED == approx 170....indicates the cumulative industry loss in PC sales quarter over quarter.

So, HP, with it's already large units sales, picked up a bit more than 50% of the Dell loss, while little Apple picked up about 20% of this Dell drop in sales. With Toshibaapparently doing well, and picking up 10% of the Dell drop.

How is this a pessimistic picture? What if Apple were to continually take 20% of the drop in Dell [or other vendors shipments] each quarter?

Both Apple and HP are gobbling up Dell's drop off, but HP is gobbling up more [50%] while Apple is picking up 20%. However note that Apple's quarterly pickup is 40% of the much larger HP's pickup at Dell's expense.

This is pretty stunning, I think!!!!!

The Decline of the PC: Computers No Longer a Growth Industry

f you look at what happened in the US between the 3rd and 4th quarters in computer sales, you do see that the Major Trend was for Dell to lose "units shipped"..and other vendors to gain by taking their share.


These comments are based onGartner data for US sales quareter by quarter, 3rd vs 4th posted on one of the blogs last week [I'm sure you know which]--perhaps MacDailyNews....




More precisely [in thousands] Dell lost 1,042. Where did this go?

Well, of the 1042 units HP picked up 566 units.

Gateway gained none, itself losing 7 units.

Toshiba picked up 101 units.

While little Apple picked up 194 of the units shipped.

The difference [1042 & 7 = 1049 LOST minus 566 minus 101 minus 194 =871 GAINED == approx 170....indicates the cumulative industry loss in PC sales quarter over quarter.

So, HP, with it's already large units sales, picked up a bit more than 50% of the Dell loss, while little Apple picked up about 20% of this Dell drop in sales. With Toshibaapparently doing well, and picking up 10% of the Dell drop.

How is this a pessimistic picture? What if Apple were to continually take 20% of the drop in Dell [or other vendors shipments] each quarter?
Both Apple and HP are gobbling up Dell's drop off, but HP is gobbling up more [50%] while Apple is picking up 20%. However note that Apple's quarterly pickup is 40% of the much larger HP's pickup at Dell's expense. This is pretty stunning, I think!!!!!

Why Steve Jobs Should Resign

Whoever you are Christopher Whalen, you discredit yourself and indicate yoursel to be a complete fool. From now on anything else you have to say will be viewed through the lens of this laughable and simplemindedly destructive piece. You should direct your attention to the Enrons, Worldcoms, Delphias and others of the world. As the above comment points out this is akin to punishing someone for jaywalking, while rapists and murderers are walking the streets. It is merely an exercise for those without wits and without will to truly perform their jobs at the SEC...and apparent those equally without wits and will in the so-called "media', such as yourself.

What Didn't Apple CEO Steve Jobs Know, And When Did He Not Know It?

This posting is a pathetic, apathetic acquiescence to all the worst in media and government enforcement today.
SHAME
But, folks, all of you reading the blogs and especially the bloggers, why don't you help "US", not just the Mac users but all of us, and shift the issue to where it rightly belongs.

Yes, the press is corrupt, lazy, and lower than even pimps and dope dealers on my list of lowlifes, but that is not why I am writing.

It is the POLITICAL CORRECTNESS and DISTRACTION on the part of our government agencies which fits right into the corrupt and mangy press.

At a time when CEOs of companies like ENRON, WORLDCOM, DELPHIA and dozens of others have taken hundreds of millions in salaries and bonuses----At a time when those CEOs have betrayed their shareholders trusts by completely falsifying data and running their companies into the ground and making their stock worthless-- At a time when CEO's have cheated consumers with inferior, damaging, even toxic products....and lied and distributed completely false financial information that led to the ruination of countless other investors----It is at this time when our government agencies, [who can't seem to do anything right to rectify those situations until way after the fact] make a point of going after APPLE and Steve Jobs, for doing what apparently many hundreds of corporations did [ some more innocently than others] in the face of ambiguously and improperly written rules for issuance of options. Their target, easy to find and self-aggrandizing in the publicity the Feds get, is, of all people, Steve Jobs, who has probably increased shareholder value more than any other CEO in the nation, who has contributed mightily to changing the entire economy and way of life of our citizens, and who has taken a meager salary of $1 per year, and who has not profited himself from any of these transaction. In a world where the equivalent of corporate rape and assault are commonplace and the Feds are helpless to do anything, they do the equivalent of sending a swat team to handle jaywalking. Perhaps it makes them look like they're doing something.

IN fact, it is time for you Bloggers, who are in touch with each other and a vast public to be proactive instead of constantly reactive to the stupidity of the media and, in this case, the Fed agencies. Why not shift the issue to where it belongs, the bad judgment in first drawing up poor guidelines, and then attacking a CEO and company, where shareholders have prospered, consumers have been delighted and not cheated, and where the economy and lifestyle of our nation has been enhanced. Goddamnit, folk,s write something about that. Shift the focus of all this press nonsense. Don't be satisfied with another nearly insane instance of 'much ado about nothing".

It is up to you to shift the debate to where it belongs. That is what Blogs should be able to do, and not just passively be puzzled by the world run amuck around them. Why this kind of nonsensical prosecution at all? Why should be part of the pathetic whores in the media who need a new John every newscycle.

Let's go and DO SOMETHING.