potstickerfan

Can AT&T Handle the iPhone?

Apple is just as mad? Why would that be? AT&T's so called inadequate network hasn't slowed the record sales of each iPhone model. If the 3Gs sales somehow didn't meet expectations i could understand your recycled argument, but Apple is more than happy with all the AT&T cash flowing their way. Loss of an exclusivity deal means loss of revenue for Apple. Apple wont collect a single dime from the carriers if it is opened to the general masses and they will never sell enough of the $400-600 phones to the general public to make up for AT&T's current $300+ subsidy on each phone sold. Apple is about cash, not network quality. As for AT&T, cut them a little slack. They are dumping $10 billion a year into wireless upgrades. Read the earnings reports. Verizon wouldn't have fared much better with the amount of data being used by iPhone customers. It's like the early stages of the internet. No one knew what the demand would be when dial-up ISPs first introduced the internet to the world. Surfing the net was done at 28k. Today we are at 10 megs+. The hardware is always ahead of the network. Relax.

Sirius/XM Satellite Radio: Merger is Doomed

Howard Stern is what is irrelevant. Like him or not, he should not be used by financial bloggers and responders like yourself as a reason/justification for a proposed merger failing. Now the FCC holds grudges? Last I checked, Stern's biggest beef was with Powell who is no longer the chairman. (And since when is fighting for 1st admendment rights concidered mocking?) It will be a sad day in America when the government starts making billion dollar decisions based on hurt feelings. The merger should be reviewed on the merits not on the content of its product. A yes vote would benefit the 20 million (and growing) current users of satellite radio.

Sirius/XM Satellite Radio: Merger is Doomed

Reveal your true motives for bashing Sirius and the proposed merger. Are you on the NAB take? Have some Neocon agenda? I always assumed that Seeking Alpha was using well researched and unbiased financial bloggers for their site. I can see from this post of yours, and others you have written (forcasting the failure of the iphone), that you are simply just another snake oil salesman trying to make a name for yourself by going against the grain. No one is for this merger but shareholders? Hardly. I own neither stock but I am passionate about the product. A merger would benefit the consumer, providing the best of both worlds on one receiver. Seems your chief argument against is that you dislike Howard Stern. How original. By the way, did you think of that 'Ford rollout increased subscriptions, not Stern' reply all yourself or did Clear Channel help you write it? That has to be the funniest line of 2007.