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Apple's AT&T Deal Is Costly

You think it MAY be true that the envy, etc... aren't as good as the iPhone? LOL!!! What gives you that clue when you missed out on all the others?

Apple owns this market. The 'unlocked' phones are not hurting Apple, they are making it ludicrously profitable to open business in these as yet virtually untapped markets.

Finally, Apple has far more going for it than the iPhone, or didn't you consider that when you lost all that money on your calls?

Apple: Rumors Keep On Coming, But Numbers Will Surprise

Absolutely. They are trying to 'shake out the weak hands'. It would be rather foolish to sell at this point, IMHO.

Hey Microsoft, I've Got A Better Idea

The laggards on the bloatfarm should not be allowed to purchase any other companies. NBC already has a HUGE Microsoft slant as they are and have been for years tied together with the monopolists in MSNBC.

So you propose they buy another network? For a company that was convicted of illegal monopoly, and not even punished, they surely should not be allowed to buy other major corporations, that's just insane.

Under The Radar News - Thursday

I would like to know how an 'analyst' thinks that a new computer model, added to the mix, could cause an '18% drop in sales'? Is it because it's an Apple product and analysts are as clueless as ever?

Sure, it could sell 18% less than they thought it would, but how, exactly, is a *new* model going to drag down sales of existing products? That just make no sense whatsoever. Enlighten me.

Beware of the 2008 Sucker Rally

Repeat it enough, and it's like a self-fulfilling prophecy. My stocks are still up over last year. I am holding on though, I am long term and I am not a 'weak hand' that will be shaken out.

Imagine If You Didn't Hate Your Mobile Carrier

iPhone does a fantastic job at email. Outlook is not real email. It's capable of supporting it if you can get the IT goons to turn it on. POP and IMAP are real, published standards. Outlook/exchange is a monopoly tactic that Microsoft controls. It only works on their servers. Apple is trying to bust that with the iPhone and going a pretty good job of it. Good for Apple, they are promoting real open standards email, not a closed proprietary system.

People whine that they need instant 'push' email. There is no such thing really. Outlook is not internet based email, it's merely a closed circuit email. If you send an email to anyone not on your server, it goes through REAL internet protocols like POP3.

Nokia N96: Where's the Touch Screen?

Looks like a Zune to me. How do you dial with no keypad and no touch screen? Does it have a keyboard underneath, or what? What is it then, 2 inches thick?

Obviously Nokia needs a lot of time to figure out how they can possibly compete.

Three Reasons I Chose Microsoft over Apple for Home Media

Give me the AppleTV anyday over the klunky Xbox. Sounds like your Mom knows more about technology than you do.

Why would anyone need a DVD player in every room when the Apple TV does such a great job of wirelessly sending the media? Don't you know how to convert a DVD?

iTunes does check for gapless playback and album art, but so what? It's multi-threaded, it's not tying up your machine. Would you rather that they just didn't tell you what was going on? That happens very rarely, usually when you are in an account that has not been used since the machine was updated. It's not an issue, though I guess you had to find something to complain about.

Ed Bott an expert? That's a joke, right?

The Inconvenient Truth About Current TV's $100 Million IPO

@vraj

Al Gore won the majority of votes in 2000. Too bad the electoral college overlords stole the election from the people. Why do you hate this man so much? Obviously your man won. Why don't you go to Iraq and fight his war for him?

Apple: On an Innovation Treadmill

@vraj

You are living in a dream world. All the Microsoft techs are running scared to death of Apple. They are literally freaking out in total FUD mode, but it's not working, Apple is rapidly gaining marketshare. Just last summer, no one would believe it, now already no one will deny it. Real people (including the bosses in charge) are waking up to realize what a total and utter sham Microsoft has pulled. Microsoft has always been devoid of ethics, they have screwed their 'channel partners' time and time again. No one likes Microsoft. No one.

Apple has totally eclipsed any OS that Microsoft could ever produce. They have also been quietly building their own Office replacement. Every application on the Mac can read any of the proprietary MS Office formats, even the new formats that Microsoft has so desperately shoe- horned into Office 2008. Microsoft programmers are dullards that only ever COPIED (badly) the work of others. That was enough before, but it's not enough now.

The other shoe is about to drop. The only reason the Apple stock has dropped is because it's a great time to reload. I think the reloading began today on myriad new rumors each of which holds far greater potential than Microsoft's old routine. Time for Ballmer to do another 'Monkey Dance' and throw some more chairs.

Microsoft's $80 Billion (and Growing) Yahoo Headache

Microsoft is in deep trouble. This deal will never work. If it goes through, you would be a fool to hold on to this dog.

Google and Apple are the future.

Apple Production Plans: Strength in Macs, Weakness in iPods and iPhones

Actually, we don't know yet how much apple gets per month. We only know that RIMM, etc... get nothing.

Also, the monthly cell charge of $59 is quite reasonable, and paying a similar price for some old tech such as Blackberry is laughable, especially when RIMM gets $0 per month from it.

Apple's Valuation Is Looking Attractive Again

Good point ssrosss. Everyone seems to be bagging Apple for 'lost' revenue on unlocked phones. But none of their 'competitors' in the phone business get ANY revenue from the network operators. And the unlocked phones demonstrate incredible demand.

Linux Creator Torvalds Calls Apple's OS X File System 'Complete and Utter Crap'

Any OS designer is tied to the file system. Blah123 is totally correct that Torvalds is a zealot, as is anyone sufficiently tied to tech. Virtually everyone in tech is biased to their own system. For this reason, Torvalds says OS X is 'superior' to Windows (I agree)--but the reason he says this clearly is that OS X is far more like his baby than Windows, so what else would he say?

He's put a lot of work into his extended filesystem. It's really not helped Linux much though, and Apple is already including ZFS (arguably a much better system than ext2 or 4) on their development tools (included with OSX.) Apple still support HFS+ because without it a lot of the legacy stuff will not work (classic) but they already ditched classic with Leopard, so I expect to see ZFS take off probably by the next major point release. He's blowing a lot of smoke.

The Markets' Shooting Spree

This is all true, Apple is doing great. But the iPod market is slowing, and traders think that is Apple's #1 market. Remember, about 99% of these guys are using Windows and think it's OK. :-) Truth is, Apple are about to steal the desktop market from Microsoft. They have already taken much of the laptop market.

Used to be Windows had more software. This is about to change as Apple ties iPhone/iPod development to OS X. Besides, we all know Apple runs windows better than Dell, HP or any of the various, generic part assemblers out there. PC is a commodity product.

But stocks are a game to make money, it's not about what the company is really worth, it's about who is going to buy and why. Everyone is looking to make as much as possible. When the stock gets expensive, like Apple at $200, you have to think if you would find that an opportune time to buy. If not, perhaps it would be wise to sell and reload later when the market sells off Apple to cover all their other losses.