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then why is it not here?
http://www.emigroup.com/Press/Default.htm
The best April Fool's joke is the one that says it is NOT an April Fool's joke.
Apple's Trojan Horse
(from OTC Journal)
Remember the Sony Walkman followed, by the Sony Discman? Everyone had one. We played cassette tapes on it. It was from my generation X.
Then, the digital entertainment revolution came along. Let's face facts- Sony, and all the other electronics manufacturers were slow to evolve. In portable digital entertainment, Apple Computer has simply kicked their butts.
Look at the price performance of AAPl over the past three years. This chart measures the price on a monthly basis. AAPL's leadership in the digital entertainment revolution has been rewarded by Wall Street in the form of a stock that has traded from $10 to $90 in that time frame.
If you think this price appreciation is fueled by computer sales- think again. This price appreciation has been fueled by a pop culture phenomenon known as the "IPOD".
It's simply amazing what IPODS do these days. You can watch your favorite TV show. Listen to your music in any order you want. Store libraries, digital pictures, etc. The IPOD has set the entire music industry on its ear, and forced their business model to evolve from selling discs to selling downloads. Oh, and by the way, when you download your favorite songs, you don't have to pay for the ones you don't want to hear. Itunes has revolutionized digital music.
So, let's fast forward into the digital entertainment revolution. Do you think the new Iphone is a good reason to buy Apple? In the words of Tony Soprano: Forget About It. The IPhone will do well, but pales in comparison to Apple's new ITV.
This little baby you see pictured here is Apple's trojan horse. This box is going to open the door to every American' living room. This is a set top box for your TV. The TV is the holy grail of entertainment, simply blowing away digital music. This little baby promises to revolutionize the way Americans get their entertainment.
This set top box will integrate with your cable or satellite. It will replace your DVR or Tivo. Sony Blue Ray or Toshiba Hi Def DVD? - neither. This isn't Beta Max vs VHS- they are both dead technology walking.
This set top box has 40 gigabytes of storage. It will store, in hi def, your favorite TV shows and movies. It will integrate with your cable or satellite hook up.
All this, and guess what else- this little baby is COMPLETELY WIRELESS!!!!!!!!!- That's right cable company- wireless. It will integrate wirelessly with your IPOD, IFone, and your Apple Computer.
And, you know what's coming next? ITVs- 40" to 60" reasonably priced hi def LCD tvs with this little baby built in- all wireless!!!!
Here's where we are going- Get one of these set top boxes- hook it up to the Internet (wirelessly if you want). Click a couple of buttons and download your new favorite movie release off Itunes for a fee equivalent to a movie rental, and make your popcorn.
By the time it's done, you'll be ready to watch the movie in hi def. And, it will stay on your ITV to be watched again.
Oh, and by the way, when you come home with music on your IPOD or pictures on your Iphone, guess where they are going to be stored?- you got it- in your ITV- and transferred wirelessly.
Analysts are grossly underestimating the power of this new device. This is the next IPOD but bigger. It strikes right at the heart of the American consumer- in the holy grail of entertainment- in the TV. This new device will be the Trojan Horse that makes Apple even more mainstream that it is today. If you think digital music was big for Apple, wait until you see what they do with digital TV.
I know it's out of the realm of my normal microcap ideas, but AAPL probably has a 50% move in it over the next 6 to 12 months. Watch the new ITV set top box blow away analysts expectations and open the door for Apple to become THE premier player in the digital home revolution.
anybody ever deal with this company?
http://www.micsoftwarestore.info/kfhr
Have you read the article, WLD? I think it is more than what you think.
So what comes after Leopard?
Final Cut EXTREME? "Avid to face competition from Apple product?"
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/02/26/daily49.html?from_rss=1
Apple, the computer maker based in Cupertino, Calif., is reportedly gearing up to take on Avid, which is based in Tewksbury, Mass., in the professional video editing system market. Apple already makes lower-end video editing tools.
According to PC Magazine's Web site, Apple is working on a new version of its video editing software called Final Cut Extreme, which will ship later this year with a price of $10,000 to $30,000.
"With such a solution, Apple is gearing up to take on main rival Avid in the realm of high-end video editing systems," the magazine reported.
Avid (Nasdaq: AVID), founded 20 years ago, has nearly 3,000 employees.
in the spring of 2003, prior to my son starting at his private high school later that fall, my wife and I visted the school and I noticed they were an all PC school. When asked about Macs, the classic disparaging remarks about the Mac were made.
Yesterday, I stopped at the school and as i wandered down the hallway and passed the separate rooms for the film editing and the photography programs, there were iMacs and G5s (or Intel based) towers in each of the rooms. In the film editing room, there were probably at least 6 -8 towers. There could be more elsewhere in the school but i just walked down one corridor.
So in three years, from ridicule to part of the curriculum.
click and hold on the ad and download it as is ... do a full screen replay in QT Pro and it is very crisp on my iMacintel.
Hello ... I guess to do the ad you had to had film clips with people saying hello but did anyone else think ... "Hello, movies!"
So what is Apple doing with my MacBook?
In the past when I had problems with Macs and especially powerbooks, I got them shipped to Apple and back and repaired in usually 3 days, seriously.
My son's MacBook had problem in September and Apple had it for a month!! Only when I called and complained did it appear a few days later (coincidence?)
So a week ago Saturday, I brought my MacBook in to the local Apple store and it needs a new trackpad. They noted that the top was fading and discolored (it's a black one). I hadn't noticed but they said they would replace that too. I told them that my firewire drive was no longer mounting on it but would mount on other Intel Macs. They put it down for a motherboard exchange.
So it is 10 days later and no MacBook.
???
so why so long to repair these MacBooks?
Wha?
Get your game on ... new section on iTunes Store. I got a notice from Apple yesterday. So when did the games get their own section. Oddly the display for the Games section is left justified and not centered on the page (perhaps they rushed it to get it up and didn't check the design?)
Nice job Tom. The graph showing growth of the number of stores is amazingly linear (almost like they have a plan or something 8-{) ).
APPLE 'AD' IT COMING -- CISCO TAKES IPHONE BATTLE TO THE NEXT LEVEL
New York Post Article - Ad in the New york Times? Is this real?
http://www.nypost.com/seven/02022007/business/apple_ad_it_coming_business_janet_whitman.htm
I didn't see this posted here.
February 2, 2007 -- Signaling it has no plans to give up its claim to the iPhone trademark, Cisco Systems came out with a full-page ad yesterday to promote its version of the handheld gadget.
The advertisement, which appeared in the New York Times, came three weeks after Cisco filed a lawsuit against Apple - whose own iPhone is set to debut in June - alleging trademark infringement.
Apple was due to respond to the suit earlier this week, but Cisco agreed to extend the deadline so both sides could try to reach an agreement.
The companies issued a joint statement on the ongoing talks that indicated Apple is willing to consider Cisco's demand that they would sell compatible products under the iPhone name.
The two tech giants have been squabbling over the trademark since Jan. 9, when Apple boss Steve Jobs unveiled the eagerly anticipated iPod-cellphone combo and dubbed it iPhone.
Cisco, which engaged in weeks of talks with Apple leading up to the launch, thought it had reached an agreement with the company that would allow them to share the iPhone moniker.
But Apple refused to sign off on the proposed contract, prompting the lawsuit from Cisco, which maintains it has owned the "iPhone" name since acquiring a company called Infogear in 2000.
Apple immediately called the suit "silly."
Apple's iPhone is a sleek portable gadget that lets users download music, watch TV, talk on the phone, take digital pictures, surf the Web and get e-mail.
Cisco, which has owned the iPhone name since 2000, launched a version of its iPhone, a cordless Internet-enabled phone by the gear maker's Linksys unit, a couple of months ago.
Apple may have good grounds to fight if the case goes to trial. "There seems to be a question about whether they were really making use of the trademark from the time they acquired it," said Andrew Baum, a lawyer with Darby & Darby in New York.
is this the buy signal?
No, no, no ... my major point was the 10 years prediction. But also how do you predict if Apple has a 7% share in 10 years in a market with a product that probaby evolved considerablyby that time to something else that is just too weird.
A Year 2016 forecast ... that 's pretty funny. By then if Apple only has a 7% market share, I would hope they would have gotten out of the business at least 7 years earlier!
2016? Will cellphones even be used in 9 years?
I would think that in 2016 the Apple iPhones would be an Apple iMplant!
I certainly can't speak for enterprise computing support but ... having worked closely with large IT groups at companies in the past (now I just have one person), the attittude was always that they just plain felt comfortable with what they had. It was what they always did and you can't go wrong doing what you always did (??!!?) They would readily admit that the PC side had lots of problems but the Mac side just couldn't handle what the PCs do plus Apple would be out of business soon and there is no sofrtware for the Mac.
I think IT professionals are not risk takers and are not innovators and certainly would not change things and worry that it might not work and they would be out of a job. What is the average age of a seasoned IT manager? I think this is an area where major change happens over geologic time periods. (can you say Y2K?)
I think some of the advances with OS X and the continued failings of Windows will cause some to look at the Mac but unless there is a lot of push by Apple in this area it will be very slow change or acceptance of Apple (awaiting a turnover of existing IT managers and their assistants).
One IT group I worked with had one staff member who when OS X was at perhaps the Jaguar stage used a desktop wallpaper that was OS X-like. He loved it and would always show it to me. He was the constant source of ridicule. When he got an iPod, he was a complete outcast. (that group probably had an average age of 28 and their manager and assistant were 45- 55 (it would be interesting to go back to this group and see what there thinking was)
here's ya go a windows vista demo
HMS, I bought a refurb of the first generation MacBook - black with the superdrive for $999 and it comes with a full Apple warranty. I got it perhaps two weeks ago. I have bought many refurbs in the past.
So $999 for the MacBook, no shipping costs, but tax.
I visted the Apple Store twice - it is a 5 - 10 minute walk from my office. I made an appointment before I went there and was taken right away and the visits both last about 10 - 15 minutes.
So yes it was worth it even with the minor problems.
I have bought new Macs and have had problems so you never know.
MacBook Experience
I have been meaning to mention ... I sold my 12-inch 1.33Ghz Powerbook and bought an Apple refurb Black 13-inch MacBook.
My immediate reaction was wow, this is huge in comparison to my PB! One more inch of display space makes a big difference. The glossy display is very nice too. I think it is a great portable.
I did/do have some problems with it. The bezel around the display was pulling away from the display in the upper right corner and the mouse click button has one very small dead spot in it (the exact center towards the front).
I brought to the local Apple Store and they brought it into the back room and fixed the bezel in five minutes. They and I couldn't duplicate the mouse click problem. A week later I brought it back and showed them the mouse click problem again. This guy also said your case top is also very discolored (hadn't heard that problem with the black models) and noted he would order the parts for the case top and for the mouse assembly. He then said they would call me in a couple of days to bring it back. They did and they noted that it might take a couple of days to fix.
overall experience is that I am very happy with the new MacBook but think perhaps I would have like a 12-inch MacBook instead - more portable.
Apple TV ... So when this is ready for sale IN the Apple Stores, what will Apple use for a TV? An Apple Display?
In order to effectively demonstrate an Apple TV , shouldn't they use a TV? If so, whose TV will they use? Sony (that has store down from the Apple Store)? No. LG? No. Panasonic? No. Samsung? No. Sharp? No. Philips? No. JVC? No. Toshiba? No. Westinghouse? No. Perhaps Motorola (do they even make TVs anymore)? No.
Imagine walking past the Apple Store in the mega-upscale Mall in anywhere USA. There is the Apple TV on display with banners noting its arrival but what is it connected to?
I think Apple would only use an Apple-branded TV.
Why would they advertise someone else's TV that could send a sale down the mall to a Best Buy, CircuitCity, Sony or even a Sears store when you could buy the TV in an Apple store.
We've all talked about an Apple-branded display/TV, I think that is one of the surprises in February. Does it make sense from a business perspective? Maybe not but from a look and feel experience, may be it does.
thoughts?
very interesting article on the new Intel chip, especially the last sentence ...
"Intel said it had already manufactured prototype microprocessor chips in the new 45-nanometer process that run on three major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X and Linux."
Wasn't the "blu(e) ray" format named after "blue movies" due to the need for more explicit explicit movies?
(hee, hee, hee)
You could call iPhone perfect
(Yes, I know that Andy is the King of Mac Users, he even took a picture of my original iPod for sale at the MIT Flea Market last October -"first original iPod for sale at the MIT Flea" he said)
(http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/215441,CST-FIN-Andy18.article)
January 18, 2007
BY ANDY IHNATKO
I have used the Apple iPhone. I had a private briefing the day after Steve Jobs' keynote and spent about 45 minutes noodling around with the device.
You may touch the hem of my robe if you wish.
In response to a Beatlemania-scale pile of e-mails, here's what I can tell you so far, based on my hands-on impressions, my talks with Apple and general first-hand sniffing around:
1. The touch-interface works flawlessly, in terms of both technical function and user interface design. Whatever you want to do -- select an album to play, make or take a call, compose and send an e-mail -- your first impulse is almost always the correct one.
This is the simplest phone ever.
And there are no lags, no pauses, no waiting for the slickly animated UI to catch up with you, even when you're scrolling through a stack of album art that's flopping past your finger in 3D: It's liquid.
The bad news: It works only with direct, skin contact. You can't wear gloves, and I don't know if you can even put a screen protector on it. On the plus side, the screen is supposed to be more scratch-resistant than an iPod.
"So long as you don't have a pocket full of broken glass, it'll be OK in there," I was told.
2. I think the iPhone's virtual keyboard is a huge improvement over the mechanical thumbpads found on the Treo and any other smart phones of its size.
The buttons are significantly larger, you don't have to hit them dead-center, you lightly tap them instead of punching them down, and the software is smart enough to know that you meant to type "Tuesday" instead of "Tudsday."
After 30 seconds, I was already typing faster with the iPhone than I ever have with any other phone. I suspect that true e-mail demons will need to adapt to the lack of tactile feedback, though.
3. It's the most beautiful freakin' display I've ever seen on a phone or PDA, both in range of color and level of detail. Even microscopic browser text is credibly readable.
4. The apps that were functional at the time of the demo give the satisfying, protein-rich experience of "real" software. The mail client and browser make you feel like you're using a powerful desktop app, not a cell phone that can kind of send e-mail and browse the Web (depending on how you define "e-mail" and "the Web").
5. Apple will keep a very tight rein on software development.
I asked point-blank if third parties would be able to write and distribute iPhone apps and was told, point-blank, no.
However, it appears that there'll be some third-party opportunities. I'm going to take a guess that iPhone software will be distributed the same way as iPod games: no "unsigned" apps will install, but apps will start appearing on the iTunes Store after successfully passing through a mysterious process of Apple certification -- one that ensures that they meet a certain standard of quality and won't, you know, secretly send your credit-card info to Nigeria.
The lockdown on software is an area of ongoing suspicious interest. I noticed that the iPhone's pre-release browser was missing some plug-ins. I asked if Real and Macromedia et al. would be writing media plug-ins for the iPhone's Web browser, and was told that no, the browser would ship with plug-ins, but Apple would be writing them all in-house. Odd, that.
6. The iPhone runs the same OS as the Macintosh. And not in the way that Windows Mobile is, I suppose, technically, if you want to split hairs about it, classified somewhere in the Microsoft Windows phylum.
Nope, everything I've learned (both in official briefings and "you and I never spoke, all right?" sort of discussions) says that it truly does run Leopard, the upcoming 10.5 OS that will be released for the Macintosh late in the spring.
Those spiffy UI animations, for instance, come courtesy of Leopard's Core Animation suite.
So will it run Mac software? Nope. The iPhone runs OS X, but it's an iPhone, not a Macintosh. And it stands to reason that the OS on the iPhone doesn't include any bits that it doesn't need.
And no, the iPhone's Widgets aren't the same as the Mac's Dashboard widgets. But they do use DashCode and other desktop widget tech, so who knows? I'm really hoping that widgets will be more open to third-party developers than apps.
7. The iPhone is still under development and isn't feature-complete. I opened the "Notes" application and found myself tapping impotently at a JPEG of what the app is supposed to look like. And the camera app only had one button.
Any complaints about what the iPhone can't do are premature. Remember, it won't ship for six months.
I really, really like what I've seen so far. But true judgment won't come until June.
http://www.suntimes.com/technology/ihnatko/215441,CST-FIN-Andy18.articleprint
up AH now.
(I am sure it will fluctuate so please wait to rush to the funeral)
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http://www.iphonecountdown.com/iphone_readymech.pdf
That's the one! Why can't I find it on the apple site.
Just saw a new Get a Mac commercial on Yahoo. I was checking a stock chart and there was a Get a Mac commercial with three guys - the usual two and an IT guy. The PC guy explained to Mac Guy that the IT guy was going to upgrade him to something cool. The IT guy proceeded to explain and put a videocamera on top of PC guy's head and using white duct tape started taping it to his head. PC guy turns to Mac guy and says don't you wish you had something cool like this. The Mac guy says nothing cuz the IT guy explains to PC guy that Macs come with a video camera built in so they can do video conferencing out of the box. PC guy then says something like I give up and walks off screen with the duct tape trailing him.
At the end Yahoo gives me the option of e-mailing the commercial to someone. I tried but it didn't work. It was flash based so perhaps Safari couldn't do it.
When I clicked on the ad it brought me to Apple's website so I could see all the ads but that ad was not there!
anyone else see this great ad?
I think a lot of people say "oh, I used to use an Apple Computer." I actually hear it quite a bit. It's almost like oh yeah, don't criticize me for using/owning a PC, I actually learned on an Apple computer. Most sound proud of that legacy so if they fill out a form, do they say they are a previous Apple or Mac user?
A sign that new Macs are coming soon? Microcenter offers $150 rebates on Macbook and MacBook Pro and 20-inch iMac and notes in ad - "subject to mfr availability." This started on 1/1 and ends today. (curiously it is not on all models though)
A Tuesday announcement perhaps?
http://www.microcenter.com/images/specials/0107a.front.full.jpg OR
http://www.microcenter.com/apple/apple_store.html OR
rebate at http://www.microcenter.com/rebates/rebate_show.phtml?id=27106
rebate for iMac http://www.microcenter.com/rebates/rebate_show.phtml?id=27101
So Fi, what can you tell us?
Does the iPhone actually have the name "iPhone" on it? I didn't see it on the front but is it there OR on the back?
I didn't see it on the back (see
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=2370 OR
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/TheRealAppleiPhone/799118 OR
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/TheRealAppleiPhone/799123
I don't think the name is on the device.
So why would it be called the iPhone other than that's what Steve Jobs called it and it is plastered all over the Apple Inc. webpages???
and here too for a few years ... http://www.iphone.org
So what does an Apple TV unit get me that I don't get if I just plain old plug my MacBook into my TV and show my downloaded iTunes movies.
Is the image on the TV better with Apple TV versus the image from the digital out port on the MacBook?
since laptops are selling so well.there are a lot of MacBook that can be set up along side of a regular TV and using frontrow, you can sit back and use the remote and watch movies that way.
So what is the big deal about Apple TV?
HUh, never noticed the 1/3/1977 date of incorporation before. Only knew of the April fool's day founding in 1976.
Yikes, tomorrow could be some big announcement ... but before MacWorld? that certainly would be thinking different.
Remember last year's macworld SF? Steve Jobs showed some 30+ year old photo of him and Steve Wozniak and noted that Apple would turn 30 years old in 2006 and added (paraphrasing) that they would have to plan to do something to celebrate that anniversary.
April 1, 2006 (Apple's anniversary) came and went with no product announced. No mention of the anniversary.
The rumors were that the product they were to announce was not ready and they decided against announcing it.
So will the 30th anniversary product be announced next week at MacWorld San Francisco??? Stay tuned.
Will it be a new subcompact macbook pro? (that may be announced but not enough of a big deal to get a lot of attention as a 30th anniversary product.
Will it be a new iPhone? (can't be called that since linksys has the rights to that name and has already introduced a product but then again what the story with http://www.iphone.org??? Could be a new iTunes enabled phone though)
Could it be a new OS X Leopard-based handheld (ala Newton, Palm or something newer, slicker, etc.)? (this could be and include the phone function too with iTunes also! Everything in one small package!)
So what do you think is coming this from Apple? I think it will be the overdue 30th anniversary product - something in limited supply and I hope something like the 20th anniversary model but somewhere no Mac has gone before ...
Time to buy Apple Shares or time to avoid them (pending complete resolution of the stock options issue)????
OK, let's assume it does come out on Monday. Why?
why one week before Christmas?
Why not MacWorld? (holy crap, does that mean MacWorld will be absolutely phemonenal?)
what does it mean?
come on speculate
I agree it is down but perhaps because of bad interpretations of numbers?
http://www.blackfriarsinc.com/blog/2006/12/do-math-itunes-sales-arent-collapsing.html
Can CompUSA compete with the Apple Stores? Based on today's Sunday insert, I say yes.
The front of their Sunday ad shows a banner that says "Welcome to TechTOYLAND featuring Apple gifts for everyone - from iMacs to iPods & everything in-between"
It also shows the black MacBook, the 17-inch iMac and the 15.3 inhc MacBook Pro with their usual pricing BUT then notes "Before 5% savings" and then at the bottom of the pages it notes "buy any Apple MacBook and get 10% off instantly on 3 or more Apple accessories"
I think this is good marketing by CompUSA and good exposure for Apple.
I believe Apple has had Http://www.iphone.org in use for a lot longer than 2 years!!
but perhaps they never registered it.
Apple Share Purchases and Sales
I was just on my Fidelity account and found that they actually have a compilation of my trades since the year 2000 and I can see all my aapl trades for closed and open positions.
I have been a trader in shares in Apple for some time.
since we recently on this board were noting how we have done with Apple, here my experience with two brokerage account - one with some details.
I used to have an account with another brokerage firm as well but trades (since they were not online) cost a fortune. I had about 2000 shares of Apple when I sold that position a couple of years ago at a very good price and since I had bought at a very low price, I was able to the classic "buy low and sell (very) high." I certainly could have held on to those since I didn't need the money but I didn't.
For just the Fidelity account, I have owned a total of 4,075 shares since the year 2000 and have average a gain of 21% over that time. I did have some losses (believe it or not, I also have dabbled in the buy high and sell way of the stock market on some occasions too).
I still have a bunch of positions in aapl and at this point my average gain for those is only about 17% -- and that is with only recent re-entry points this year.
good luck to all