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Apple Breaks Out to New Highs

To: Constable Odo. Good post.
I purchased an early MP3 player made by some large media corporation with some very nice software that loaded onto my Windows machine. It was a good player with headphones and a nice small LCD display so the user could see what was playing or a play list. About 1-2 years later, at least, the iPod came out. Suddenly it was cool to have an MP3 player and _everybody_ bought one.

There was this search engine for the internet called "Alta Vista" by Digital Corporation. It was an excellent search engine. I used it all the time. Then, a company called Google did it better.

There was this thing called a bulletin board only it was based on the phone lines and you could download almost any kind of free software or demo you wanted. Then this thing called Netscape came along.

If anyone somehow thinks that a product that is already "failing" in the market cannot be redone -- and better -- you need to remember the not too distant history of marketing and product innovation in the United States.

Universities want to be able to charge money for the books the students are required to buy or download or read or borrow. It's about the money, the implementation, and the design.


On Dec 24 11:10 PM Constable Odo wrote:

> Isn't this rumor spike going to drop back as soon as another rumor
> disclaiming this rumor takes place? Why the heck is this stock so
> easy to manipulate with rumors? And why a rumor about a tablet that
> so many people think is going to fail as all the other tablets have.
> Do they really think that Apple is going to be able to move huge
> numbers of them? I think Apple can do it if the publishers help
> digitize everything and make the prices for subscriptions reasonable
> enough. Apple may be able to do for publishing what it did for music.
> I would think universities would love to have streaming services
> of books to their students.

Is Netflix the Next Apple?

Manhook, You're on to something. There were good MP3 players before the iPod came out (I had one), just like Kindle.

On Jan 19 09:47 AM Manhook wrote:

> Bryan,
> I think you're missing Apple's biz model and infrastructure possibilities:
> should your blog be "will Apple be the next Netfix?" Consider the
> following possibility:
> Apple introduces this summer a new product with a screen size perhaps
> 2X the iTouch. Then they transform the book business like they did
> to music and attack Amazon's business. Imagine downloading a book
> onto this device (a la Kindle) and being able to read or listen to
> it, with Apple providing the SW to switch back and forth to written/spoken
> word at the user's want....and doing so on the word, without missing
> a beat. Then they expand their digital store to go after the download
> of all digital products with this new device in concert with Apple
> TV. Hello movies! Goodbye Blockbuster and Netflix. Both will see
> declining businesses similar to the decline in music CD sales. Think
> big!
>