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  • Editorial: Apple note sends media pundits into a fit of histrionic gibberish

    RodoBobJonRodoBobJon
    The article had a lot of good detail points -- but it missed the big picture that's driving this...
    In other words, it talked about the trees but couldn't see the forest.

    That became apparent when it said:
    "Apple has hung the moon for investors for so long now that the idea of the company struggling sent the entire global stock market into a paroxysm of fear and plunging indexes," Swisher wrote. That's colorful language, but what does it mean?"

    The fact is:   for a decade now Apple has been seen as infallible.   A juggernaut that can't lose, can't miss, and can't be beaten.   But suddenly, when a soft spot or crack appears, that image blows up quickly.

    In other words:  It's not the current negative reporting that is at fault (although it is exaggerated), it was the prior reporting that assumed Apple's infallibility. 

    I believe that this may be the best thing could have happened to Apple - because Apple itself has gotten trapped by that image and has been terrified of putting out a less than stellar, less than perfect product.  Now that we now that Apple is fallible and imperfect, we can get on dealing with reality.

    (and, before anybody attacks me for being anti-Apple, nothing could be further from the truth.  Apple may not be perfect, but it's still way far out in front of anybody else out there)

    This is quite wrong. The market has not typically viewed Apple as an infallible company that can't be beaten. If that were the case, they would have a high price to earnings ratio (P/E) which, very roughly speaking, indicates how long the market believes a company will be able to maintain it's current profitability. Apple's modest P/E relative to the other technology giants implies that the market expects Apple's profitability to end or significantly collapse much sooner than it's peers.

    So yes, Apple has spent quite a bit of time as the highest valued company in the world. But that's because they make so much damn profit right now, not because the market believes they will continue doing so far into the future. The market has never believed that about Apple. At it's highest level in the modern era, Apple's P/E barely cracked 20. 
    gatorguyfastasleepDan_Dilger

  • Apple to forge 'iPhone 8' chassis from stainless steel, report says

    RodoBobJonRodoBobJon
    kiowavt said:
    True or not,

    Oh Apple, please stop with the thinness.  Yes, it's the bragging point of the universe, but we are there at the great paradise of thinness in laptop and phone and pad. Headphone jack removal meant I cannot buy any new iPhones (I am on my phone all day for work) so the thinning of the phone lost one sale, and likely I have to hold onto my 6s forever.  At this wonderful current thinness (before 7 and Touchbar) most folks add cases anyway.  Make the phone much thinner and I will cut myself on it.  :-)  Battery life and function are at this stage far far far far more important to me and most others than the bragging rights of the thinnest out there.  Yes yes, Steve Jobs pulled the Air out of a paper envelope and that was impressive.  Even he would have known not to carry this on forever.  Now the latest laptop is missing so much many might buy something from OWC that adds back thickness and function.  Trouble is they also had to first pay the super high premium price for the thinning of the laptop.  Oh, and a case with a headphone jack.  Yep, the same there too.  There comes a point where you have arrived, but even Apple failed to notice that.  Add AR.  Increase battery life to the moon. But stop before you go anorexic.  Please.  That also takes courage.  

    (The trick would have been to addict everyone to the AirPods and then, after a few Generations of AirPod improvement, THEN ditch the headphone jack).  
    FYI the iPhone 7 had the same thickness as the 6s, and the 6s was actually *thicker* than the 6. I'm not sure why people still complain about Apple's supposed obsession with thinness when it comes to the iPhone. It's been years since they made the iPhone thinner. It makes no sense that the article says "As always, Apple is expected to thin down iPhone's general profile in 2017."
    radarthekatwatto_cobrastompy

  • HomePod, the iPod for your home

    RodoBobJonRodoBobJon
    You would only use the Alexa app if you had a speaker.  It being #1 in the app store isn't good for Apple.  It means that millions of Apple users brought Alexa into their homes over the holidays.  There's no way to blow that off
    I don't want to dismiss Alexa, but it's worth noting that FitBit had the top app in the app store just two years ago, and yet that hasn't been much of a problem for Apple Watch's sales performance over the last two years. Maybe the smart speaker market will prove to be extremely important and Alexa will dominate, but sometimes it can be tough to distinguish tech fads from long-term trends, especially when the product in question is dirt cheap.
    Xaviercross1971watto_cobra

  • Editorial: After disrupting iTunes, Spotify demands a free ride from Apple's App Store

    RodoBobJonRodoBobJon
    I think the mall analogy is a bit off. It's more like if one company owned 50% of the malls in the entire US, and then started it's own stores while jacking up the rent on competing stores. 

    Yes, customers can always go to Spotify's website to subscribe, but that's always going to leave Spotify in a disadvantageous position relative to Apple Music. 
    muthuk_vanalingam