Posts by bobbyc

The average consumer is smart enough to not pay MSFT a monthly "subscription" fee.  The average corporate IT department needing to stay in compliance with MSFT licensing rules for mobile device software products has no choice....

There is no such thing as bad publicity (except your own obituary).     Drawing this out - and getting their digs in as a bonus - are positive PR outcomes for The Company.   And the whole time it plays out, we...

Classy. They were really caught in a no-win situation - the needed their own maps solution in the market, but to make it world-class, it needed users, which they can't get until they launch it, but launching it means replacing an...

They are innovative copiers.  Bazinga.

Quote: Originally Posted by cgc0202 Let's not forget for example, that Apple is very dependent on Asian (China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea) techno-industrial empire. All it would take is a Chinese who has the vision akin to Steve Jobs,...

There's nothing wrong with being a "fast follower" and not a market innovator - you get to pick your targets, decide what you can do that is different, and you mitigate a lot of risk that goes along with being a market-leader...

AAPL is building products for the masses, not the ironic, meh-full elites. The masses are still buying tons of Beatles albums. This will make money for them, and prevent GOOG and MSFT and AMZN from making money and scoring a PR coup. ...