Al Willis

Apple's Earnings Shine - Clears Mac, iPhone Shipment Hurdles

Even though they guided up, Apple still continues to be conservative, compared to where they'll likely end up.

Apple Leopard's Secret Ingredient: All 3D, All the Time

This has got the most speculative post I've seen yet on Seeking Alpha. While I suspect there will be a new user interface, but it won't be a complete 3D interface.

Apple's A Short In Light Of Sales Data

Shorting AAPL? Yeah, good luck with that. Do you know how long we've been hearing that everyone that wants an iPod already has one?

Apple Apparently Loses Its Mind, Claims Ownership Of Word 'Podcast'

Why can't so-called professionals get the story straight:

The company was attempting to file their own trademarks of the terms "podcast ready" and "mypod." If Apple doesn't protect it's "iPod" (and related) trademark, then is loses it. There nothing stupid about that. More at daringfireball.net/lin....

Downloadable Video: Will Anyone Actually Buy It?

Disney announces Apple has sold 125,000 of its movies in one week. I guess the question of whether or not people are actually going to buy movies has been answered for now.

Apple Overload and Zune Confusion

Where did you get the idea that iTV doesn't do HD? It'll play whatever gets streamed to it, including whatever HD content is on people's machines. And while you can't currently buy HD content from iTunes, that will happen in time, when broadband speeds increase. Don't forget--it takes 30 minutes to download a full-length movie at 640 x 480 at typical cable modem speeds; a HD movie would take several times longer.

Apple will allow content--purchased, user generated or downloaded from the internet--to move from a Mac or PC, to an iPod (and the Video iPod when that's available) to a television via iTV. And it'll just work.

An Apple for Your Thoughts - What's Apple Got Up Its Sleeves?

Just to be clear, Apple "marketing" has yet to be heard from. All we have now is speculation and rumors about what Apple might introduce on September 12. While the news that Apple going to introduce <i>something<... is in the stock, if Steve drops the "and there's one more thing" bomb, there's no telling how high the stock can go.