Posts by MacCentric

There was never a contest, Jobs wanted TBWA/Chiat/Day, and he got what he wanted as always. There was a quote along the lines of "Steve Jobs believes market research is looking in the mirror and asking himself what he wants." ...

Quote: Originally Posted by kevdo Oh, my God I never thought of that! The lowest settings on my Core Duo iMac make any app with full-volume (e.g. max setting within iTunes) really too loud for many situations. And NO I do not like...

Quote: Originally Posted by ITFinanceGuy The great thing about no standing salary is that means Jobs makes nothing (well OK $1.00) unless he helps the company perform better. In which case, if he can consistently help the stock raise...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross This is only because you don't want to see Apple put in an embarrassing position. Why not? If this were a company dumping radioactive waste you wouldn't be bothered by these shareholder actions,...

These shareholder proposals piss me off in the fact that some of the proposers don't even own that much stock. For instance, the company with the environmental proposal Trillium Asset Management Corporation sounds big and impressive...

Quote: Originally Posted by melgross Perhaps we are talking about different types of data. A PCS Vision Pack is $15 a month. That is unlimited email and IM, unlimited web access, unlimited picture mail, etc. I think physguy is looking...

Quote: Originally Posted by physguy I think you have logic backward wrt lower rate. Cingular is SPENDING nothing on the iPhone as opposed to paying motorola or others for the privilege of giving away their phones. This is why you have...

Quote: Originally Posted by vinney57 Not going to happen, not going to happen and not going to happen. Yeah, especially regarding Dell, they have enough to worry about in trying to regain the share that HP has been stealing from them.

Especially at launch, there is no reason for anyone to subsidize the iPhone, I believe that demand will outstrip supply even at the unsubsidized price until after Christmas. Remember that three years ago, plenty of people were buying...

Quote: Originally Posted by Johnny Mozzarella Apple needs friends and didn't want to alienate Yahoo by getting in bed with Google. Apple already has Google's CEO on their board. If they announced the iPhone with only Google...