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Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

Are we supposed to believe that you actually trade Apple stocks when you repeatedly use APPL instead of AAPL?


On Jul 24 01:07 PM vloscomp wrote:

> Time to short APPL .... (millions of screamers) The key point of
> this story is the infrastructure that will allow mobile devices (not
> just APPL devices) to connect to the internet. I am so happy that
> you chumps had been cheering APPL for the last 24 months, but it
> is time (by Oct) for me to bid adew to APPL. Device technology have
> been competitive market (ie US Robotics 56K modems, HP Calculators
> ...) and the shelf life of a device is probably about 12 months or
> less. iTouch has no barrier to a competitive "me too", therefore,
> APPL will see erosion in profit.

When To 'Believe the Hype' of a New Product

You call it hype... I call it a product announcement. That is what Apple has done for years before even the iPod. Frankly, I don't recall any hype with the iPod. I didn't buy my first iPod until the 3rd generation. After the success of the iPod, there was alot of anticipation for the iPhone. Simply put, Apple knocked it out of the park at the MacWorld expo in Jan 2007 with that announcement. No one expected all the features that the iPhone had. The success of the iPhone created even more anticipation for the 3G model. My point is that Apple is not creating the hype, it's Apple's success that is doing it. At this point, if Apple introduced the iToaster tomorrow, there would be a million articles written about it.