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Apple Investors Nervous as Earnings Call Approaches
Nokia told the world that the iPhone would never make it, the phone market is too complicated for a would be interloper. Now, Nokia's CEO is scared shxxlexx, scrambling to acquire competency in operating systems, and scrambling to integrate technical forces into something he "hopes" will compete with Apple.
The iPhone results will not be part of today's report by Apple. You can read why elseshere.
I have to laugh also about the RIMM "experts" - all smiles about the next model, to have "touch screen" technology, knowing that they won't ever have - at least for years - the multi touch Apple technology - which is extensively not only patented but is copyrighted. Copywrites do not expire. And, yes - you can Copyright (takes a long time and much effort) a technology just as Apple Copyrighted the iPod look and the navigation wheel. The Copyright is the killer deterrent to would be "me-too" copiers.
The next quarter report will have the iPhone results.
JW - these negative looney critics don't own any stock. Just lurker tramps, hoping to stampede a sell. Their views, if they really believe them, are at the very fringe of the probability bell curve. Right where they belong. At the fringe.
Apple Investors Nervous as Earnings Call Approaches
Apple Sells One Million iPhones in Three Days
Microsoft's iPhone Envy Is Starting To Show
That is what it would be like if there ever was an acquisition of Apple by MSFT.
Which has zero probability.
Will Apple Be Dragged Kicking and Screaming to the Business Market?
One little item: If you are referring to Visual Basic support on the Mac, a la Microsoft, MS has realized their error and will support VB on the coming round of Office. VB is supported on Office 2004 however.
Also, if what you say about PCs and Windows is true, why the total dissatisfaction with Vista? You don't think this voter dissatisfaction has something to do with the quality of Vista?
You don't think this will, by itself, push people and businesses out of PCs?
I don't know, there is a lot of denial out there.
iPhone (Apple) vs. BlackBerry (RIM): Which Do Consumers Love Most?
Probably also hard on a number of investors, who also believed money could buy anything. Except competency. And, you can't buy a company which has competency and expect it will survive in a company's culture totally different than that of the acquisition.
Been there.
Does Apple’s Move Impact ARM?
I am still looking for a geek type perspective, zeroing in on the potential of this technology vis-a-vis Intel. Particularly, the uniqueness meaning patents. Because patents and patentability signify whether or not this technology has true potential and staying power.
If you k now of such perspective, would appreciate the reference. T
Under The Radar News - Wednesday
Correction:
Democratic "Lawmakers" and left wing Democratic "analysts" assert - - - - - - - -.
Just how long did these ###### people wait before they wined and bellowed? A week? 10 days?
They want the government to void their mortgage contracts because they can no longer find some better fool mortgage company to refinance their property. That's right, get the government, meaning me, to subsidize foolhardy investments.
Apple Thrusts Ahead on Convergence by Acquiring PA Semi
Apple to Experience Market Share Madness
Apple to Experience Market Share Madness
Are you saying you do look at fundamentals? And, if so, what fundamentals are you aware of with Apple which is reflected in you short position? Be specific, instead of just yammering on. You seem to think that people who have long positions are simply greedy. What a juvenile attitude! What is the meaning of the word investment in your mind?
If you made so much money - a statement most people would not be so brazen to say - were you just plain lucky? Because you studied the fundamentals? Someone told you to? Or what?
Frankly, taking your advice would be the last thing I would do, and that's being generous. And I see no evidence in your words of anything approaching an open mind.
So, what is your great wisdom regarding Apple? And when to exercise your short? You say that people who are long are just greedy. Correct? Now, what do you call people who are short?
(I'll bet you are one of those who keeps muttering, "Just you wait, Charlie Brown")
Apple to Experience Market Share Madness
I read over your words, trying to glean any meaning, let alone wisdom. And can't find any.
Many years ago - and this is the closest thing you might be trying to say - there was a group of people, starting in accedemia , who proposed a concept of stock valuation. It was based on what they described as "random walk theory". This "theory" never looked at anything that might be otherwise called a fundamental of investment value, but instead looked at stock behavior. I have now forgotten now many of the tenets of this theory, but have the distinct feeling that this type of investing is now considered bunk.
I assume that your objective is to gain money, versus the perverse objective to lose money. And you have chosen Apple as your vehicle to gain money. By shorting it. So you must have a theory unrelated to fundamentals of Apple to believe in this, maybe like the randomwalk theory of trading. But not investing, since you have no ownership in Apple other than a commitment to buy. So, when the stock hits 200 might be a good time to cash out a short position?
Apple to Experience Market Share Madness
In the early 90s there was an "analyst" by the name of Sleighter who, after Apple's market share was released at 2.7%, he predicted - no he declared - that Apple would be bankrupt and out of business in exactly 14 months. He even said that the market share data points were a straight line on graph paper, and his ruler pinpointed the company's termination. Yup. His golden ruler. He also declared "Game Over" (for HP, Dec, etc.) after Intel announced their forthcoming 64 bit (880 mb/s) chip named Marcedes which would take over the server market. This chip turned out to be Intel's most collossal failure, costing billions and never really coming to fruition as visioned.
My cousin loves my iPhone, but will never buy one because Apple is "not a good company", and not competitive with PC companies. He's a PhD geneticist, so education does not seem to be a basis for this irrational bias.
Many of the critics and antagonist claim that there is nothing behind Apple. Its all just a bunch of Apple heads, nothing more. And if Apple has accumulated $18B it should give all this back to stockholders. And do it now. Just money made by over pricing worthless merchandise that only a child would play with.
It is hard to say if these people, in their weakest moments in the dark of the night, think they might have been wrong. But the smarter of the bunch seem to be acting on these fears, and are quietly going into an Apple store. And buying a Mac.
Long on APPL since 1996.
Blockbuster CEO: I Wanna Be Like Apple
Right. I know you wouldn't dare to do that. And if you say you don't know enough or, say one element in the probability is that someone else (outsider) will suddenly step up to the plate to finance the entire marketing and R&D and the probability of that is, say 10%, then automatically the likelihood of this ever happening is less than 1%.
Forget it.
Smart Phone Wars: iPhone vs. Blackberry vs. ...Android?
Regarding Android. as anybody contemplated how good Android will be in emulating what OSX and a real browser does? And how fast? Like, how good is the rendering of text to any point size you want? And, what good is Android on a tiny screen, particularly if you can't read it anyway? What is Android's equivalent of Quartz? (Mac people will understand what Quartz does for precision graphics)