John Warren Gotsch

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If anything I find these comments somewhat on the conservative side, but that's the name of your paradigm. I am a grey-beard paradigm shifter and I think that Steve Jobs' only limitation is that he is not moving more aggressively in European and Asian markets. Where, for example, are the Apple Stores in Berlin, Paris, Saint Petersburg et alia. Interesting that VW, Mercedes Benz and Jaguar are showing Jobs the roads to the future. Apple with little help is potentially huge in Europe.

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I do not disagree whatsoever with any of either the details above or the pushing of them to their limits. I just want to say as an old Mac-user and as one who has used a variety of PCs; I have come back to the MAC/MUG families not only as a consumer but too as an investor in AAPL for the very long haul and too my arts house in Budapest to Apple and Steve Jobs. As a long-tiume investor I too have followed too Erik Schmidt (Google CEO and Apple Bd member) before he joined Novell. Locking Jobs and Schmidt at the hips and you a critical mass for long-term transformation. I have consolidated most of liquid wealth into AAPL for the very long term. I believe with the three legs to Jobs' milking stool: Macs, iPods-iTunes and now iPhones ---that all the other stuff iTV, iNAV (navigation systems--- and whatever is coming from Jobs and Schmidt in creating an "ecosystem"---will no doubt create one helluva paradigm shift. Ride on Steve!!!