It has nothing to do with Apple but more with Wall Street.
They are betting the bank against Apple to fail without Steve Jobs.
Everything idea of Apple is treated with disdain and every positive factor is cast in doubt and disbelief.
And nothing Apple do is good enough.
Yes Wall Street is trying very hard to fulfill their own prophecy and nothing else.
Yes they don't want to look like fools in the eyes of world with their negative outlook on Apple when proven wrong.
I wonder if Wall Street merely resents Apple for actually producing a product, no screwing people over and innovating to be one of the most successful companies on the planet. They aren't financial services crooks (pick any), an energy company, war profiteer, data mining marketing company (Google), or knock off expert (Samsung) -- therefore -- hate is the natural reaction.
I wonder if Wall Street merely resents Apple for actually producing a product, no screwing people over and innovating to be one of the most successful companies on the planet. They aren't financial services crooks (pick any), an energy company, war profiteer, data mining marketing company (Google), or knock off expert (Samsung) -- therefore -- hate is the natural reaction.
WS wants their annual "Apple is Doomed" predictions to come true.
What *you* seem to fail to understand is that there are leaches (Patent Trolls) that are exploiting weaknesses in the system for profit. They buy or create an overly broad conceptual description of something, patent the idea, then sue in east Texas. There is no intention of actually making a product based on the patent. These Patent Trolls are law firms that purchase these patents (usually from bankrupt companies) who focus solely on "enforcing their patent rights" (i.e. suing).
Evil is relative. At least they license the patents they own, so that anyone can use the technology.
The result can be better for everyone.. companies and consumers... than when, say, Apple bought up Fingerworks, or Authentec, or the rights to LiquidMetal usage, and forever denied that tech to all those who had already been using it for years before Apple got interested.
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Need examples? How about the patent troll Lodsys, who's Patent 7,222,078 titled "Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network". Pretty vague, eh?
Don't get me started on vague software patents. Or software patents in general.
However, as such things go, the Lodsys fee (0.575% of a developer's profit) is peanuts compared to what Apple/Google and the government take for their share.
If a developer sells $1,000 worth of in-app purchases, then about...
$300 goes to the app store owner.
$150 goes to taxes.
$4 goes to Lodsys.
It's the price of a small burger. No wonder many devs just give in and pay.
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Originally Posted by AdamC
It has nothing to do with Apple but more with Wall Street.
They are betting the bank against Apple to fail without Steve Jobs.
Everything idea of Apple is treated with disdain and every positive factor is cast in doubt and disbelief.
And nothing Apple do is good enough.
Yes Wall Street is trying very hard to fulfill their own prophecy and nothing else.
Yes they don't want to look like fools in the eyes of world with their negative outlook on Apple when proven wrong.
I wonder if Wall Street merely resents Apple for actually producing a product, no screwing people over and innovating to be one of the most successful companies on the planet. They aren't financial services crooks (pick any), an energy company, war profiteer, data mining marketing company (Google), or knock off expert (Samsung) -- therefore -- hate is the natural reaction.
WS wants their annual "Apple is Doomed" predictions to come true.
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Originally Posted by _Rick_V_
What *you* seem to fail to understand is that there are leaches (Patent Trolls) that are exploiting weaknesses in the system for profit. They buy or create an overly broad conceptual description of something, patent the idea, then sue in east Texas. There is no intention of actually making a product based on the patent. These Patent Trolls are law firms that purchase these patents (usually from bankrupt companies) who focus solely on "enforcing their patent rights" (i.e. suing).
Evil is relative. At least they license the patents they own, so that anyone can use the technology.
The result can be better for everyone.. companies and consumers... than when, say, Apple bought up Fingerworks, or Authentec, or the rights to LiquidMetal usage, and forever denied that tech to all those who had already been using it for years before Apple got interested.
Quote:
Need examples? How about the patent troll Lodsys, who's Patent 7,222,078 titled "Methods and Systems for Gathering Information from Units of a Commodity Across a Network". Pretty vague, eh?
Don't get me started on vague software patents. Or software patents in general.
However, as such things go, the Lodsys fee (0.575% of a developer's profit) is peanuts compared to what Apple/Google and the government take for their share.
If a developer sells $1,000 worth of in-app purchases, then about...
$300 goes to the app store owner.
$150 goes to taxes.
$4 goes to Lodsys.
It's the price of a small burger. No wonder many devs just give in and pay.