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Apple Links Higher Sales with Higher Prices
Google's Page, Brin and Brilliant on Clean Energy from Davos '08
I love conferences like these. Ultra-rich, ultra-liberal guys sitting around, passing ideas as easy as passing gas, as if they know HOW to make any of this happen. They remind me of Stan Laurel's description of Laurel and Hardy: "two minds without a single thought." Ten cents per kilowatt hour using some pie-in-the-sky generator? Sure! What's the big deal? "I'll just take this Picasso painting off of my wall, auction it, and we'll start building that windmill farm over yonder, in the middle of your little useless subsistence farm. Outta my way, plebe!"
This nonsense would be laughable except for the fact that if/when these clowns get put in charge of policy, which could easily happen, millions of impoverished people on this planet are going to get killed. But it's okay to kill people if your intentions are good.
There is only one certainty about this: these idiots will never be affected by their policies like we mere mortals will be.
Apple: Rumors Keep On Coming, But Numbers Will Surprise
Apple's Extraordinary Edge
The market speaks for itself: there are lots of people, like the appropriately-named Blah, who are quite content with beige rectangular boxes (and horrid clothing, to use my example). But to compare that ugly piece of crud (my description) to an iMac and say "they are equal" demonstrates the difference between the two customer types. I gag when I see a PC; not one has any sense of style. I'd never allow one in my house. I feel the same about OSX vs. Vista. You may disagree. Fine. But that's my way of explaining the differences that this article alludes to.
If you're content to drag files around to play music, then by all means, a cheap, hard-to-use music player will suit you just fine. That's where the mp3 business was in 2001. But if you want to manage your music with a sense of elegance and style, Apple offers it to you via iTunes. I didn't say Blah was wrong in this regard, only that he isn't an Apple customer and as such had nothing constructive to offer about this piece. I believe he used the term "idiot" to describe me and my ilk. He opened the floodgates, not me.
However, Blah clearly doesn't know what he's talking about in regards to Macs either, when he drags out this old hit piece from ZD-Net, written by a former ballet dancer. Even the "report" cited in the ZD-Net article said “PLEASE NOTE: The statistics provided should NOT be used to compare the overall security of products against one another." Just more fluff from the Microsoft camp trying desperately to defend its rapidly crumbling empire.
Apple's Extraordinary Edge
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You sound like the stylish kind of guy who is content to wear his black socks with his brown dress shoes while wearing his old burmuda shorts on a summer's day. I believe you when you way you're just as happy with a $600 laptop as you would be with an $1100 Macbook (if you're going to compare "cheap PC laptop" to a Mac laptop, at least choose the "cheap Mac laptop" for your comparison). Enjoy your stripped down, no-power Vista OS on that cheap PC laptop while you're at it. I'm surprised you gave up your old Sony Walkman cassette player for a modern MP3 player. Your discount $50 pink Zune probably matches your wardrobe.
I'm glad that you're a vocal PC-head. You're the best kind of advertisement for Apple products that Apple could only hope to buy.
Apple's Guidance Games Are Hurting Shareholders
Apple Beats Estimates, Proves to Be Lowball Central
Could iPhone Become the Best Selling Smartphone on the Planet?
Apple and ThinkSecret Settle Suit
No one has free reign to say anything he damn well wants. When I signed my employment contract, I agreed to keep my mouth shut in exchange for a salary and bennies. I even agreed, in writing, that I would hold myself accountable if I leaked information. No one put a gun to my head to sign it. I thought it was a good, negotiated agreement between my employer and me. Violate it, and I've brought a heap of trouble down on my head because I have harmed my employer by violating the terms of my agreement.
How about this idea, Larry: I'll set up a blog and publish everything that Seeking Alpha publishes. How's that going to go over there at headquarters?
iPhones Sell Themselves in Everyday Tasks
Can't anyone write an article ANYWHERE either in praise or complaint about a product without being accused of being an Apple or Microsoft fanboy? Apparently not. Don't like it? Don't buy it. It's that simple.
Just because a company is sued doesn't mean they copied. If that were the case, Microsoft would be the King Of Copiers. Having $15 billion in the bank means that the sharks consider you to be prime rib. No more, no less.
Mac towers have expansion slots if you want 'em. iMacs don't. Name your poison. And rumor (of a tablet PC) doesn't make it reality, dude. This rumor has been out there for some time; so where's the Mac tablet? Answer: it's so lame that Apple finds it "useless" (in your words) and won't make one. Yes, tablet PCs took the world by storm, didn't they? The market has proven it's a lame, useless concept.
Finally, you'd be taken more seriously if you could learn to properly construct a sentence. Think about it before you contribute next time.