Posts by macFanDave

Apple ought to start a program to let disappointed Kindle Fire buyers trade up to an iPad. My sense is that almost all Kindle Fire buyers would prefer an iPad, all else being equal, but the $199 loss leader price is irresistible.

This sounds just like the eMachines model: sell hardware at a loss to make it back on future sales. It was a colossal failure then, and it won't work now. It gets to a point where the more units you ship, the more money you lose. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by Dick Applebaum This sounds a little like Whistling past the graveyard... That's exactly the phrase I came here to write. Siri requires the infrastructure and hardware on both the client and server side...

Schadenfreude party at my house!

I predicted this as soon as it came out. I need to call myself an "analyst" and get paid the big bucks for my clairvoyance!

One model has an exploding battery and the other is locked into the Windows search engine. Bada Boom Bada Bing

Libel. If AAPL takes a hit for this BS report, they need to haul up this Chowdhury dude for lying maliciously about the company.

Screw Google. They just should have stuck with search. At first, they were so much better than the competition, they killed them all. Instead of focusing on keeping ahead of those who figured our how to game PageRank, they stuck their...

Patents are government-granted monopolies . . . for a limited time. And only kind of. Patents don't give you the right to produce and sell your invention, they merely allow you to exclude others from producing yours. If the US...

But, did you notice the baseball game? It was the Boston RED SOX vs the Detroit TIGERS. Very intriguing, the nod to an older version of Mac OS X, but keep in mind that Detroit's NFL team is the LIONS (ya see what they did...