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Will the iPhone Be Taken by Storm?
Should Apple Consider Buying Yahoo!?
just considering the excellent maps app on my iphone: can a Yahoo product really replace that?
im not one to believe in monopolies in the style of Microsoft and Google but until there are better options, dont mess with the formula.
Jonathan Ive: More Valuable to Apple than Steve Jobs?
- thanks for bringing Ives to the discussion. i think he's been much overlooked outside the design and apple fan base.
- being a CEO is a wider - and sometimes more banal - job than chief designer. there are usually few assurances that a design person can run a company.
- i think there's much more to apple than these two guys but because of the secretive culture you dont find much info. contrast that with google that looks like a college coed on speed in the way they open up to the press, public, etc and with all their products whored out in data mode. apple : not a peep until the final version is ready.
Now Is the Right Time to Buy Apple Option LEAPS
The Wal-Mart Diet
Why Apple Stock Is Poised To Go Flat - At Best
and that last point brings me into another sometimes unnoticed fact in that apple know what NOT TO DO. they know when to ignore the many times raucous calls of their fans to build every conceivable product and have waited until good and ready. this is likely due to their failures with some widely touted product introductions in the first steve jobs kingdom and the stasis before his second coming.
i also understand the importance of the market cap argument but feel that part of it can be countered if (sometimes a big if) they can continue to have amazing margins. who is the best example of this? Microsoft of course. they were at the top of the market cap tables on a global basis for years (decades?) and still are simply because they could maintain high monopolistic margins. the difference here lies in that apple does not seem to have as clear a monopoly going forward.
finally, and as one of the posters commented above, their products truly change the tech lives of many people that make use of their products for their simplicity, robustness and beauty.
steve jobs deserves to bask in the glow of what he has enabled and created. i wish him well with his health and hope he can take a break since i would guess much of it is due to his stress at apple.
and a final word: insults instantly diminish the value of an argument since it means the writer does not think rationally and is prone to outbursts. its the difference between a clear and convincing statement and rubbish. please think before you speak.
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