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    GotWake

    GotWake 12:30 am on April 12, 2012 - 38 days ago

    http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-has-only-sold-35-million-windows-phones-to-date-report-2012-4

    “Microsoft has sold just 3.5 million Windows Phones, according to plugged-in Microsoft reporter Mary Jo Foley. That’s a mind bogglingly bad number of sales if true. However, there is some dispute about the number. Another Microsoft observer claims 11 million sold. Foley is a great Microsoft reporter, and is standing by her number.”

    Disputing 3.5 million by claiming 11 million……. LOL That would be like claiming you only had only 1 girlfriend versus 2 to your wife. It really doesn’t change the big picture.

     
    • Zee

      Zee 7:07 am on April 12, 2012 37 days ago

      The picture of Balllmer accompanying the article looks like he’s not sure of what he did wrong but he’s assumed the correct position before the handcuffs go on. Just saying.

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    GotWake

    GotWake 2:08 am on April 3, 2012 - 47 days ago

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/473591-why-i-now-dislike-apple?source=yahoo

    Key points:
    1) iOS follows a closed-garden approach
    2) Apple banned the app Scratch from MIT
    3) Parents will stop buying Apple products because they “constrain a child’s ability to learn and be productive…..”

     
    • GotWake

      GotWake 2:21 am on April 3, 2012 47 days ago

      I love how Apple constrains a child’s ability. Titles over the last year:

      Apple’s iPad helps to improve kindergarten literacy in Maine
      How iPads Are Revolutionizing Teaching for Children with Autism
      Schools see rising scores with iPads
      Study Shows Algebra iPad App Improves Scores in One School | MindShift

    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 4:00 am on April 3, 2012 47 days ago

      Although there are some areas I am disgruntled with Apple lately, mostly from a developer point of view in regard to Lion OS, I can’t agree with some of the main points of that guy. Computers are inherently unsafe. I would like to actually see more sandboxing, even within OSX not just iOS. I very much like the “closed garden approach” from security point of view and I do not see it as something that stifles the creativity.

      • GotWake

        GotWake 10:40 am on April 3, 2012 46 days ago

        I can see why some dislike Apple’s policies. But, I can’t imagine why an article like this would show up on an investment site like Seeking Alpha. His whole article is nothing but trolling. “I must now dislike Apple. And I wish that somehow, it gets taken to the cleaners in the marketplace, if not in the stock market.”. The only relevant thing to investing was three bullets points at the bottom. I pretty much despise Microsoft products right now, but if I thought for a second that their stock would double in the next two years, I would buy some msft.

    • Zee

      Zee 4:47 am on April 3, 2012 46 days ago

      Developer clause 3.3.2 is referenced. I don’t know it. But from the story. I gather 3.3.2 might lessen RIM’s chances of selling Fusion through Apple’s App Store. Just a guess.

    • Birra

      Birra 1:56 pm on April 3, 2012 46 days ago

      I hate Apple because they don’t allow porn apps. Sure I can go to a web site, but it’s not the same as being able to touch it especially when haptic feed back is implemented.

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    GotWake

    GotWake 6:23 pm on March 21, 2012 - 59 days ago

    Microsoft Says Windows Phone Will Pass Apple in China

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-21/microsoft-says-windows-phone-will-pass-apple-in-china.html

    “Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), the world’s largest software maker, said its Windows Phone operating system will propel it past Apple Inc. (AAPL) in China’s smartphone market as its partners release devices costing as little as $158.
    Passing Apple is an “interim goal” as the company’s longer-term objective is to supplant Google Inc. (GOOG)’s Android as the local market leader, Simon Leung, Microsoft’s chairman and chief executive officer for the Greater China region, told reporters in Beijing today. He didn’t give a time frame for reaching the targets.”

    I think Sir Jonathan Ive said it best, our competitors have ‘completely wrong goals’.

    They don’t care if they make better products or even make any profit. It’s all about selling x number of handsets on the cheap. Good luck with that.

     
    • henrystar

      Richard 10:36 pm on March 21, 2012 59 days ago

      I saw this story, and I replied “ha ha ha ha.” I got 4 appreciates last I looked. How anyone at Microsoft has the nerve to anticipate success after e.g. zune I do not know.

  • GotWake

    GotWake 7:43 pm on March 13, 2012 - 67 days ago

    http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/03/13/apple-50b-of-debt-might-be-attractive-option-says-bernstein/

    “Bernstein Research’s Toni Sacconaghi today reiterates an Outperform rating on Apple (AAPL) shares and a $600 price target, and muses on whether the company should perhaps issue $50 billion to $100 billion worth of debt if it plans to return cash to shareholders through on ongoing dividend.”

    Makes perfect sense……

     
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    GotWake

    GotWake 3:23 am on January 27, 2012 - 114 days ago

    With close to $100 billion in the bank, it looks like everyone has started to beat the dividend/buyback drum. I think I would rather see a stock buyback than a dividend. It will be interesting how things will change without Steve.

    http://seekingalpha.com/article/322266-what-an-apple-dividend-may-look-like

     
    • Zee

      Zee 4:06 am on January 27, 2012 114 days ago

      My hunch: No. And, no. I read that Samsung was investing $37.5B. So I think the $100B is like a nine iron. When things are in the rough etc, you pull it out and clobber the thing.

      • Zee

        Zee 4:14 am on January 27, 2012 114 days ago

        Btw if I’m not mistaking it, it looks like Apple will now be pulling in over a billion a week on average.

      • conshmillo

        conshmillo 10:25 am on January 27, 2012 113 days ago

        That’s my feeling too. When you have 100 billions at hand nobody messes with you.

    • Nicu

      Nicu 2:15 pm on January 27, 2012 113 days ago

      as long as they are going to be doubly taxed on that offshore cash, there will be no (significant) dividend; there may be a symbolic one, just to allow some classes of funds to enter the game, but this still sounds too artificial and contorted to sound like what Apple would do

      what I see as a reasonable law is that US should take in tax the difference up to 35% from what was already paid ; this way there is no public backlash, no incentives for businesses to cheat but also no incentives for others like Apple to keep the green out there until the end of times

      as for buybacks (if the tax issue is resolved), they should buy back low and sell later at higher levels (just like issuing for cash); in this way they will limit volatility and risk, increase their cash with no effort, therefore the real value of the company and keep some vultures out as they cannot manipulate it easily anymore

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    GotWake

    GotWake 5:41 am on January 23, 2012 - 117 days ago

    http://business.financialpost.com/2012/01/22/thorsten-heins-to-take-over-as-rim-ceo-as-mike-lazaridis-jim-balsillie-step-down/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NP_Top_Stories+%28National+Post+-+Top+Stories%29

    It’s amazing it took this long. But, it’s too little, too late.

     
    • Nicu

      Nicu 8:41 am on January 23, 2012 117 days ago

      http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-23/heins-brings-hardware-skills-to-rim-s-battle-with-apple-google.html

      Bringing a hardware guy to fight Apple and even derivative Android is like bringing a knife in a fighter jet battle. Good luck with that. No idea how the market reacts to that, but if we see $20, I advise anyone stuck with this dead horse to get out.

    • GotWake

      GotWake 5:21 pm on January 23, 2012 117 days ago

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QUFwhpcrCTw

      Innovation – “sometimes we think the unthinkable’ :) A company that has been hemorrhaging market share and value. A company that didn’t believe that the iPhone was possible…….. innovating? LOL

      Thorsten – the captain of a ship that just hit an iceberg in 2007 and is slowly sinking. He just doesn’t know it.

    • Senator Gronk

      Senator Gronk 8:05 pm on January 23, 2012 117 days ago

      Supposedly, the captain of the Costa Concordia was dining with an unregistered passenger when the ship ran aground. I doubt that she was promoted to captain of the ship after the captain hopped into a life boat.

      And yet, isn’t this what RIM just did?

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    GotWake

    GotWake 5:21 pm on December 21, 2011 - 150 days ago

    What’s the deal today? Negative reaction to pricing?

     
    • Nicu

      Nicu 6:03 pm on December 21, 2011 150 days ago

      Unless you look at charts, do not try to find reason in the short term moves. And even then, you only get a “probable” prediction / explanation.

      Maybe somebody was simply afraid that the good news would push it up so they pounded the brakes a bit too hard ?

      • GotWake

        GotWake 12:04 am on December 22, 2011 150 days ago

        Yeah, I just thought I was missing something the way it was getting hammered earlier today.

    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 7:38 pm on December 21, 2011 150 days ago

      More like knee-jerk reaction to yesterday’s 300+ “bump”.

      • conshmillo

        conshmillo 7:44 pm on December 21, 2011 150 days ago

        oops. Now I noticed you are posting in TSLA.

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    GotWake

    GotWake 7:41 am on October 28, 2011 - 204 days ago

    ……. Motorola Xoom. Coming in at a operating loss of $32 million for MMI. :) The Xoom gets Zuned!

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/27/motorola-xoom-shipments-q3-2011_n_1062664.html

    Companies are going to get a little gun shy with the tablet market. They thought (cough) that this was just like the smartphone market. They can throw anything/everything out and people would just buy it up. Every quarter, this looks more and more like the iPod market. Companies are going to half-commit (“make shit”, if SJ was saying it) to the market so they don’t lose millions.

    With MMI losing $215 million just over the past three quarters, it’s hard to imagine that Google would buy them and not sell off the pieces (keeping the patents).

     
    • Nicu

      Nicu 8:34 am on October 28, 2011 204 days ago

      Google looks more and more like Microsoft, only that they are weaker in understanding economics. It’s only natural, when you had a huge cash pipe in you backyard for years, you have no clue what savings or the right price for stuff is. I wonder how long they will survive when competitors will start turning down the valves of that pipe. They are a one trick pony company, much more than Microsoft, more or less like RIM. The end will spectacular, even it it will take 5 years to get there.

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    GotWake

    GotWake 3:32 am on October 24, 2011 - 209 days ago

    http://events.apple.com.edgesuite.net/10oiuhfvojb23/event/index.html

     
    • conshmillo

      conshmillo 10:38 am on October 24, 2011 208 days ago

      I’ve never met Jobs personally, but I feel bit sad each time I am reminded by media that he is gone. Last time I felt this way was when Frank Zappa passed away. I knew too for long time it was coming but when it happened I was struck and saddened by it. (Actually when I think of it, those two had many similarities)

      As for Celebration of Steve’s Life, I’ve definitely liked the Ive’s segment the best. It was very hearty and passionate. Actually listening to Tim Cook was like listening to the dry bread. He most definitely is great at running the Apple. But please do not use him as a company speaker. I don’t know if Jony would be willing to be the face of Apple, but I think if he would it would be great. He is different from Jobs, but he shares his passion and he can grab your attention and things he says are inspiring although he says them in his own unique way with his much slower intonation. :-)

    • Birra

      Birra 3:29 pm on October 24, 2011 208 days ago

      Agree, that subtle enthusiasm and excitement along with an obvious intellect needs to be front and center. Being able to say “It’s amazing!” with conviction is the essence of Apple.

  • GotWake

    GotWake 2:39 am on October 13, 2011 - 220 days ago

    http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/12/samsung-attempts-to-ambush-iphone-4s-launch-in-sydney/

    “Samsung has set up a temporary shop in Sydney, right across from the local Apple Store, and started hawking Galaxy S2 phones for the low, low price of two bucks (with a two-year contract, naturally).”

    Maybe it’s me, but Samsung is starting to look pathetic. Then again, maybe they are doing a little “R & D” :)

     
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