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It's absolutely staggering that this article and commenters here have failed to pick up on the fact that the markets are bearish at the moment and that this is a post election market too.
Apple has fallen beyond markets, and it started before the election. Not that it means a lot.
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You are long on insults and short on specifics. I guarantee you, as long as quality concerns remain a major motivating factor for Apple buyers, Apple will develop competitors who attempt to deliver it as well. They will never match Apple, but eventually will deliver good enough quality for the buying market. And it isn't new ideas that they need. It is new value propositions that people will want to buy. And no, they…
Guys been dead one year and all we hear from people like you is that innovation is dead at Apple because they haven't launched any new $50 billion products in the last 4 quarters. Steve produced a handful of what you're calling "new value propositions" in over a dozen years and most definitely had his hands all over everything Apple has launched from his death to today. Your claim that Apple probably has no new produ…
Don't forget, we've seen this play before. Apple on top of the world, Steve Jobs removed from the picture, a guy at the top with a history of execution but not innovation. (OK, the current CEO's history is in a more relevant field than Sculley's background at Pepsi...) The result was very much not pretty.
They are going nowhere for a while. They are clearly ahead of the market, and they have a core constituency of fans. But I'm willing to bet money that in 10 years the luster is off, and in 20 they will be just another technology company to most of the world.
Buy now :o)
AAPL is where RIMM was 4 yrs ago. Rest all is history!! :)
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AAPL is where RIMM was 4 yrs ago. Rest all is history!! :)
I do not see them failing like RIM. They might well fail like Sony (i.e remain largish but slowly fade into irrelevance). I can totally see that happening.