Posts by Quadra 610

"A new report claims"   This is how all that shit we hate starts.   Analyst 1: Hey Ed, there's a new report from somewhere claiming that Apple's going to introduce an edible iPhone made entirely of lead. Analyst 2:...

The gradual slide into irrelevance continues. 

What nobody knows (but the more far-sighted realize) is that 2013 will be the year that Apple, seemingly out of nowhere, reimagines and revolutionizes yet another segment of the tech industry.    The hilarious part of it...

*wants to buy a Mac*   *tries an iPad*   *reconsiders Mac purchase*     Now multiply that by a lot of people. That's at least *in part* responsible for recent declines in Mac...

Apple's performance is not the problem. Apple's consumers are not the problem. Apple's products are not the problem.    Wall Street and its base of "analysts" and their unrealistic, inflated expectations, based on flimsy...

Quote: Originally Posted by alcstarheel  22 million iPads? As Quadra just said those sales are skyrocketing. All things considered it's a great, great quarter but apparently that isn't enough.   After...

It's a record quarter.    It's interesting to see that iPad sales are approaching iPhone-level numbers from a couple of years ago. 

Semiconductors power everything, from the good, to the bad, to the downright ugly.   When you're running a whored-out OS, buying mass quantities of parts for at least 27 models of "smartphone" alone, it's not...

Quote: Originally Posted by TBell  From Apple's perspective, Jon Rubinstein and Fred Anderson were giving Palm inside information on what employees to go after at Apple. Had Rubinstein and Anderson not been former Apple...

The interesting part is that despite the allegations, Jobs is no longer here to answer for it.    That complicates things. And now, all sorts of claims and inferences can be made.