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Buy 1 Apple Share.
If Apple shares come down to $100 you should buy more than one.
Apple isn't coming down to $100 from $375 - not anytime soon at least - don't be crazy.
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#82I, apparently in agreement with Apple's investors today, have a little trouble with the notion that Steve Jobs stepping down will have no effect on Apple's success. I'm afraid the Apple faithful are playing a little fast and loose with logic on this one. Let me see if we have this straight... 1) Steve Jobs was absolutely and almost singularly responsible for Apple's meteoric rise over the last 14 years. His vision, h…
As of right now, AAPL is down 1.24%. The market index is down 1.29%. I'm not sure the investors agree with you.
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Er, what? At least in the Kindle app on Honeycomb, you just long press a word to see its definition.
You don't understand that the Kindle is geared towards something very specific. Apple is building an entire OS. You can three-finger tap to get the dictionary, after highlighting, in iOS 5. Sidenote: Apple views these gestures as the equivalent to keyboard shortcuts. For the end user you want to create the obvious so they won't be confused.
I don't think that select and three-finger-tap is anywhere close to obvious- doing anything with more than two fingers is already pretty rare on iOS.
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I will gladly bet $100 on that Apple, without Steve Jobs' help, will create a new product in the coming decade that'll revolutionize Maybe, but skeptics will probably be right to doubt it. Many had similar hopes as yours when Steve was fired from Apple in the '80s. The company ambled along for a few years, then started its famous nosedive. Expect the same this time.
Except in the 80s Jobs didn't hand pick his successor (at the time of his succession).
Actually he did hand-pick John Sculley. And Sculley failed spectacularly.
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#85What an irritating post, basically saying nothing but, "Hey, look, I saw this coming!"
I think Gruber has the ability to write exceptionally well, but in this case it seems like he was trying too hard. This piece comes across a bit like a James Lipton parody.
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#86I, apparently in agreement with Apple's investors today, have a little trouble with the notion that Steve Jobs stepping down will have no effect on Apple's success. I'm afraid the Apple faithful are playing a little fast and loose with logic on this one. Let me see if we have this straight... 1) Steve Jobs was absolutely and almost singularly responsible for Apple's meteoric rise over the last 14 years. His vision, h…
As of right now, AAPL is down 1.24%. The market index is down 1.29%. I'm not sure the investors agree with you.
25AUG closed at less than 1% down.
Apple/Steve has done this transition well, and the market is (mostly) satisfied that Apple has competent leadership.
I predict this news, like previous such news (like Tim Cook as interim CEO), will soon be eclipsed by other relevant events (like iPhone5 launch).
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I don't think he meant truth in terms of marketing (although I'm hard-pressed to think of a case where Apple has outright lied in their ads, but maybe in a release) but truth as design fundamental. Based on the context of that sentence I would say Gruber meant it more in the way of "truth to materials" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_to_materials ) in which Apple's design is reductive and efficient to the user.…
I see you are trying to draw attention away from the fact that Apple has on repeated occations shown to be dishonest, disengenious and outright misrepresenting competitors by presenting information in ways they knew to be wrong. I see you do that and I wonder why on earth anyone would be so loyal to a corporation that they would be willing to drag their own credibility down to defend the credibility of a corporation…
I'm not loyal to Apple. I do like Gruber's writing though, so I was defending his use of the word 'truth'. I said what I thought it meant, including a related link to the concept on Wikipedia.
What are some examples in which Apple misrepresents customers?
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Exactly.
"You write on your site; I write on mine." http://daringfireball.net/2010/06/whats_fair It _still_ isn't clear whether the parent is Daring Fireball's author ( but I don't suppose I doubt it much )
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Over the last 5-8 years or so there's been a formula to what made Jobs such a successful leader of Apple. Smaller, faster, focus on human usability, make it look nice, control the supply chain so you can build it cheap and make lots of money, let your competitors make the mistakes and swoop in with your own product with what you learn from their failures, don't bother building cheap low margin junk, etc. It's almost…
You've basically said what he did has been/is condensed down into a basic formula which anyone given enough exposure can repeat. If business were that simple, we wouldn't need book after book written about everything: new methodologies, strategies, innovation, management, etc. I just don't think we understand people that well yet, let alone that we are able to copy them so effectively. Is the analogy of astronomy to…
Fair points. The timing happens to work out pretty well that we're just now in the period where SmartPhones and tablets are becoming mature consumer products so Apple can ride the formula for many years to come. It will get a lot harder when it's time to make the next big leap forward.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Over the last 5-8 years or so there's been a formula to what made Jobs such a successful leader of Apple. Smaller, faster, focus on human usability, make it look nice, control the supply chain so you can build it cheap and make lots of money, let your competitors make the mistakes and swoop in with your own product with what you learn from their failures, don't bother building cheap low margin junk, etc. It's almost…
A repeatable method can be copied. What does Apple do when one of their competitors figures it out and starts implementing it?
Try to do it better. It's inevitable that competitors are going to copy. I'm not sure Jobs could have stopped that either. Apple has some huge strategic advantages and big war chest which definitely helps.