Replies to post #84233 on Apple Inc (AAPL)

[Bootz]

Moron, yes, and MSFT was up 25 cents today. The stock has been virtually moribund for a decade or better.

Apple had perhaps the best business opportunity in modern (or any?) history, and Steve Jobs failed to capitalize on it.

Aside from continuing to live in the past, you were aware that AAPL was about to surpass MSFT in market capitalization, weren't you? I thought you were.

You people worship the clown.

Au contraire, I don't spend five seconds of my working day thinking about Steve Jobs in any way whatsoever, never mind worshipping same. You, however, seem to be obsessed with him.

Microsoft is far from perfect, but since you made the comparison, MS is more ethical and gives more back to the community and world every hour than Apple has done during the past 30 years. Some of us value that more than overpriced shiny toys that may or may not work as advertised.

Great!

That goes a good ways toward ameliorating the millions of hours of otherwise productive human activity wasted over the years just dealing with Windows in its various iterations.

And the iPhone 4 works just fine here, thanks. FaceTime is a blast!

And there's an added bonus: knowing that your hatred of all things Apple is going to cause you and yours to miss out on something that just works.

Sweet!

[dslarsen]

"Microsoft is far from perfect, but since you made the comparison, MS is more ethical and gives more back to the community and world every hour than Apple has done during the past 30 years. Some of us value that more than overpriced shiny toys that may or may not work as advertised. "

The "shiny toys" line is a rather shallow way to describe the greatest consumer electronics products ever made, but it does fit your chosen moniker.


I don't know if Microsoft contributing to some charities can ever make up for the billions and trillions of accumulated manhours of waste, and the innumerable iterations of stolen information that Microsoft has cost the world since its inception.

Apple gives more back by just not being a total energy suck.


In any event, it has nothing at all to do with the question of whether or not Apple is making its stockholders happy.