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Will a Black Eye from Consumer Reports Hurt AT&T, iPhone?

The question is wether anyone actually looks to consumer's union regarding computing devices. I don't think they have much influence there. The network depends very much on where you live and where you travel.

For instance, if you want to travel internationally, the Verizon plans are useless.

Top Apple Analyst Muddies Black Friday Results

The methodology Munster used is a convenience sample, it is not considered representative. It does provide some information, but really only about those particular stores.

Comparisons to last years's data is where the problems really begin. For example, comparing sales in the glass cube NYC store, for example, could we way off because there is now a newer flagship store in that same city.

I appreciate the work that went into it, but drawing conclusions from it is shaky at best, and comparisons to last year are even more problematic

What if Steve Jobs Hadn’t Returned to Apple in 1997?

"User dependence on desktop software meant that only the very loyal or the very strange used Apple’s products. Everyone else wanted a common desktop platform."

That is revisionist history. The mac at that time was having some problems, but it still offered the best usability by far. In fact, though it was not as stable, the Mac OS at the time had many features that OS X still lacks.

It is true that 'everyone else' was afraid to buy a Mac at the time. Contrast this to now, where it seems everyone WANTS a Mac, but some are still not sure why they should buy one. It's kind of a catch 22, (unlike iPod and iPhone which has been the real genius--put out a product that is understood even by windows users) until you buy one you have no idea why they are so great.

That bit about Google Voice is really getting old. If GV is so great, as you seem to think, then just switch to Android and quit whining. Apple isn't going to let Google come in and totally FUBAR the entire iPhone just because Goog might have a good idea. Apple is in the driver's seat here, not Google.

3 Stocks that Could Pay Out Larger Dividends

Dell really should "sell the company and refund the money to the shareholders."

Microsoft pays dividends because it obviously has no idea how to use the money (if there is not any tech that is ripe for ripping off, any competitors they can monopolize out of business, etc...) They have never done anything remotely innovative in the tech realm, but they have written the book on how to innovate as a monopolist. For the life of me, I don't understand how anyone could hold this one.

They bought back a lot of stock and basically that money was completely wasted.

Apple doesn't need to pay a dividend, but I wonder what the stock price would do if they offered one. I think it's a deal right now. It's worth over 200, but people are so far afraid to pay it. That is going to change soon, if I am right about it, and I have been right about this one since it sold for $12 and before it doubled (twice).

Thinking About the Cloud, Oracle and Salesforce.com

Apple has never called the iPod touch the 'iTouch' that is more of a slang term.

A Worm in the Apple?

A clueless rant, plain and simple, with nothing to back it up. Apple, meanwhile, is gobbling up Microsoft's market and the highest margin points from all of the generic POS clone cobblers like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc... who do nothing but assemble generic parts and shove Windows onto the mess.

Also, Apple is the only one with a media solution, the only one with a market leading mobile solution.

Apple has no effective competition except from the Microsoft-addled financial and tech press.

Will Microsoft Get Squeezed by Chrome OS?

Microsoft is the Walmart of technology due to it's own actions.

Dell's Lack of Innovation Disappoints

Dell should consider it's own advice for Apple, and think seriously about 'selling the company and refunding the money to the shareholders'.

Dell's Lack of Innovation Disappoints

Apple is not a 'new leader' for Dell. You have not been paying attention. Dell has been copying Apple's lead in hardware design since the very beginning, since LONG before Apple moved it's hardware to Intel, back to the early 90's at least.

Apple's iPhone vs. RIM's BlackBerry: Who Wins on Comparison?

iPhones work great here. It will be on multiple networks in the next few months anyhow. That is BS that the iPhone phone isn't good, it's only the network in some locations.

Cramer's Stop Trading! What the Dell (11/20/09)

Dell should take his own advice (for Apple some years ago) and "sell the company and return the money to the shareholders).

HP isn't much different. All PC companies, except Apple, are merely slapping together generic motherboards and shoving the horrible Windows excuse of an operating system on it. The do no real development in hardware, and have never added one iota of value thru software. It's really ironic that we even consider them computer companies at all.

A real computer company develops software.

The William O'Neil Strategy: A Quest for Upside Surprise

Apple might be distant second in terms of marketshare, but they are making far more profit per device. Also, no one is using any computer tech that was not derived from Macintosh.

Apple will end up taking a huge chunk of the computer market. In terms of profit, they already have 91% of the market for computers costing more than $1000. IOW, they already own the high end market. I think they want the rest of the market as well, which should be easy considering it's the high margin market that everyone is after and they already have that.

Apple's Tablet: Consumers Will Buy, But What About Businesses?

>>And again there are already big player working to bring the medical profession into the computer age, why would they want to switch horses mid river?

The same reason you always give up on a horse. It's lame.

Amazon, Apple Stock Going Vertical: This Never Ends Well

FUD, pure and simple, someone wants to buy in cheap or is shorting, no doubt.

As the previous comments stated, Apple is simply NOT overvalued. Do you have any idea what the earnings are going to be when they change accounting this quarter???

Reminds me of all the numskulls that thought it was a 'premium' brand that 'no one would buy in a recession'. Which was totally incorrect, they sales have gone UP during the recession.

If Android's Going to Compete It Needs a Real App Store

Android is an also-ran, wanna-be, with no app store, and no iTunes store. There is no way it's ever going to catch up and even if it could, Apple would have a better model out.