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These kind of earnings make me want to celebrate by making a new semi-annual entry.
A dozen or so years of owning the fruit company have been berry berry good to me.
There have been some games going on with the value of Apple lo these past few months - here's hoping we're through those days. Is it really running around the $400 mark in after hours?
Brings a tear to me eyes.
Consequently, I did not install it on my iPad2 which continues to run iOS 4.3.2.
Wow, same problem as this user…
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15165608#15165608
Are you doing any Exchange syncing? Some one later in this thread indicates that there may be something amiss with Exchange Calendar…
Congrats!
I wonder if that also means there will be a new iPhone on Verizon this summer when they've traditionally brought out new models for ATT? Anyone know?
I'm gonna guess no, considering it took the two parties most of a year in engineering - I suspect they'll stagger them for the first year.
This summer's GSM iPhone will likely just be a feature tweak (think 3GS) and then perhaps they'll unify the release with the advent of 4G technologies either in '12 or '13. I suspect that's why Verizon announced some extra bonus service features, just to keep both standards feeling double rainbows until next summer.
I hear we're eventually moving to software defined radios in phones, so at some point the standards will go away.
Ah the captain of lost causes. Glad to see they still haven't cut off your electricity.
Is PED really so dumb as to not see the distinction between a flash runtime and code generated by a flash app to run natively in iOS?
That man seems to tread the fine line between relevant and trolley link bait far too often.
There are easier ways to access 100,000…
http://www.lexcycle.com/
(and it's free)
Breaking?
Broken maybe.
All that "exploding" Android market share, at no net sum gain to anyone except maybe the carriers. Apple's share will fall a whole half a percent by 2014 as piles of me too Android phones flood the market at lower and lower mark ups. Run for the hills!
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I can't figure out what those things are made of? Are they some kind of foam? Wood? They can't be too stiff lest they don't slide on snugly...
Some interesting colour on Google's Android "business":
http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2010/08/07/googles-next-big-moneymaker.aspx
Mac Greer: According to some new Nielsen numbers this week for Q2, Android now represents around 27% of new smartphone purchases in the U.S., compared to 23% for the iPhone. And yet in the article, you make the point that Android generates "scant" revenue. Why isn't Google making more off Android?
Michael Copeland: Well for one, they license the Android operating system for free, so they give it away to handset manufacturers to use. Then those handset manufacturers can do what they want with it, so even to the point where they could make Bing the default search engine on an Android phone if they wanted to do that, and there is some discussion of carriers and handset manufacturers doing that. Google tries to make money off of Android via mobile search and it could make money in the app economy if people are buying Android apps. But even Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) doesn't make a whole lot of money on apps yet.
The serious competition goes both ways with Android clearly pulling away from AAPL over the next year in market share.
Well certainly for one quarter, in the US only, amongst 18+ yr olds, and ignoring corporate acquisitions…yes. Beyond that is hard to say. Sales are cyclical.
That, of course, doesn't mean Android will have the best OS.
As Apple knows only too well the "best" is a relative term to the general public, who often cares little about such things.
I presently prefer iOS4, the total package (security, integration, iTunes, The App Store, etc.) and most of the business model the company puts on the road, but I'm not religiously attached to it.
I don't think we're going to get to an all or nothing situation. Android is only the OS, and the iPhone itself is only the hardware, but it's probably always going to be a combination of those that proves most successful in the end.
Android may end up with larger overall OS share, but distributed amongst a half dozen manufacturers. Apple's share as both OEM and OS maker may continue to be larger than any one of them. While Symbian still has the largest OS share among all phones worldwide no one is placing much hope in their longevity.
Android is in a huge growth phase as all the pent up frustration from the various OEMs finally get underway in a new direction after 3 years of watching Apple take the plum $ part of the market. I assume things will return to some sort of balance, with the market distributed between 2 or three key players if RIM can keep up, or if MSFT doesn't botch things.
The only AAPL stock I own presently is via ETFs. I like to avoid specific stock risk; I scare easily.
ETFs have gone mad the last couple years. One of my clients is a bank and they're introducing ETF funds as fast as they can get them approved. There's so few places to put your money anymore that are completely risk free. Even my mattress has termites!
Yes. . .and to that I would add price, marketing, and distribution power.
And ask how fast and wide can Android continue to grow?
I guess if I was solely using those three parameters I'd say Android was in for some serious competition.
This may not be the device. . .but the day is near when someone puts together a tablet about this size and price that includes reliable hardware with a good capacitive touch screen, processor and memory, and a battery life of a solid 8 hours or better, etc. + a top notch, secure Android build. . . .then the game changes, and we'll see impressive features and price competition.
The "game" is still the same game. Build the best combination of features, software, form factor, design and "wow" and the world will beat a path to your door.
Other than an application set, and some variations in back office server support what features distinguish a "business phone"?
Very curious to see what their next moves are at RIMM.
Yep - agreed.
But as an AAPL investor I figure it's just one more attachment that won't walk out the door.
I figure the marketing workup about the vampire-draw is just so they actually have something to "say" about it! It doesn't even specify that Apple is the one and only in this regard…
cheers
Yes, but the Apple charger includes 6 AA cells.
The cheapest I can find AA nimh online are at $1.50 a cell or $9 for 6.
Therefore I'd say this product might be more closely compared to a $15 Walmart item - or half of what Apple is charging. About right in my books.
Anecdotally, my kids work through a couple pair of AA battery rechargeables every week on their Wii from only occasional play. That's a lot of dead conventional batteries that don't hit the dump.
Maybe they didn't test it? Maybe it's an engineering flaw?
(see how that happens?)
Apple went with the tiny company Cingular, which got bought out by AT&T.
YIkes - I'd forgotten - they overlapped for what? 4 days?
I'd second that (12 years+ too!)
It's now so anticipated that what little movement might have been all but gets squeezed out and the ever-so-helpful financial press looking to exaggerate the move. Don't think "antennagate" and earnings are related? You haven't been watching closely enough…
Action now tends to flow in slowly after earnings. Give it a couple weeks.
Bit of a misnomer "chose".
The story goes that Verizon said no to Apple's initial terms. They were unheard of at the time - but T said yes and the rest is history. Their agreement reputedly ends sometime later this, or early next, year. T likely demanded exclusivity for a period of 5 years to cover their investment.
Verizon (and Sprint) are also running CDMA networks which have technical limitations (can't talk and receive other data at the same time). No international roaming either, I think.
There are some advantages to CDMA though (better coverage?), and I would assume Apple has some phones ready in skunkworks waiting on new chips from Qualcomm so they can pack it all into the new iPhone design.
The game will get really interesting over the next year or two as next generation "4G" cellular technologies light up, with throughput similar to your wired connections at home.
Magic decline…
Still waiting for that decline on the iPhone.
With that kind of half-life I think beleaguered Apple might have something.
(Although I count myself as someone who thinks this is a much harder sell that the phone)
Hmm, not sure I would take any credence in an article that gets its first point wrong
MBPs were upgraded in June 2009…not a year ago.
http://www.macrumors.com/2009/06/08/apple-releases-new-15-macbook-pro-updates-17-macbook-pro/
And I thought your last soup was thin gruel.
Just how do you keep watering-down water?
It's a gift I guess…
Yeah, and the market is so upset they're selling everything!
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cq?d=v1&s=eca.to+aapl+palm+nok+rimm+armh+panl+akam+dell+hpq+mot+intc+ibm+msft+csco+goog+yhoo+amzn+s+t+vz&d=v2
Except NOK. They just cured cancer.
Yep, he's a true grey beard.
You know people keep saying things like that…not that we shouldn't be critical of Apple, but it's just so "reflex".
If a few more OEMs demonstrated any kind of thinking whatsoever rather than literally stamping out another permutation of the same components and OS that the other guys already have, Apple wouldn't get half the attention it does. How in hell can the CEO of the world's biggest tech company come on stage before the world and show no guidance whatsoever. Talk about a lost opportunity. A waste of Bill Gates legacy.
I found a lot of yesterday's presentation rather cloying and soaked in Forstall's ADD-fueled happy talk. But the zen master of presentation, Jobs, though weakened, still demonstrated a firm grasp of keeping it simple.
While Apple's success in in the details, it's amazing how free of them they keep their presentations. They hammer away at very simple takeaways points, push the user experience and merely hint at the device's potential, leaving the consumer to discover all sorts of easter eggs of design and thoughtfulness. Consistently under-promising and over-delivering.
Some may call it "hype", but more and more I think it's really "envy" writ with a fancier crayon.
And the iPhone was "just a little computer". So?
Gonna be interesting to see if developers are as interested in developing specifically for it. The Mac developers I know say that desktop app development has been dead since iPhone OS came to town.
A little dose of resolution independence would come in handy about now…
no.
True dat.
Going to hold off 'til the evening of the event next week to watch the video version firsthand.
I can't seem to turn on any media device without someone speculating on what this device will and won't do. My local coffeeshop if full of Apple laptops and iPhone and everyone is talking about their "apps". Local radio had a long interview last night with local media players speculating about what a tablet would bring them.
Apple speculation has gone from a pleasant hobby to something akin to entering the shopping mall at Christmas. Frantic, angry and highly competitive with too much irrational muzak.
Even when the iPhone premiered it lacked many features that comparable phones had.
Didn't seem to matter to its success, you see, because sometimes it about more than mere hardware features.
Ah. And when a new iPhone comes out in June of this year with features that meet or exceed the Nexus will it then be considered a reaking pile of canine fecal matter?
Puh-lease…
Bootz: Squareup.com
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Netbooks on the wane?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8421491.stm
This is a dumb article and seems ignorant of the signs of the last 6 months.
Apple has been web-ready with iTunes for most of the year.
The last version of the app made it clear that Apple was preparing it for web delivery, by utilizing webkit and mostly eliminating coverflow.
iTunes has been a massive streaming platform from day one.
Apple's been building a massive data center (some say world's largest?) in North Carolina since this summer. No real surprises here.
The LaLa purchase was all about talent acquisition. There's only so many bodies out there doing these things well who understand the issues.
MS doesn't care. They don't have to.
Isn't that the real problem these days? Frittering away all that hard won Gates legacy with all sorts of silly me too projects that hoover up what seems like pocket change (a billion here a billion there and pretty soon…) while they've been asleep at the wheel with their bread and butter products.
I would hope someone takes charge soon.
Improve your iHub interface experience?
Let's face it kids, it ain't pretty. But we can clean it up a bit…
If you use Safari for iHub you can remove a number of page elements that fill most of the top half the screen (the adbar, iBox, and various other bits) on a laptop or smaller screen by downloading the following file:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/213126/iHub.zip
In Safari:
1) Go to "Preferences"
2) Select the "Advanced" tab
3) On the "Style sheet" pulldown select "Other…" and link the file linked above (un-zips to become "iHub.css")
4) Close Preferences and restart Safari.
If you find that an essential feature is gone and you want it back, just deselect "iHub.css" in your Advanced Prefs and restart Safari.
This is a work in progress.