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sog35 said:

ValueAnalyst said:

Says the guy who can't even spell Buffett.

Says the guy with 10 posts

This is a good point, although ValueAnalyst is now up to 22 posts. Had he been here longer he would know it isn't worth debating Sog on stocks. Sog has too many incoherent rants to understand what he is trying to say. 

rogifan_new said:

lord amhran said:

Not totally surprising. The iPad, while nice, isn't something I'd want to use long-term in a classroom setting. I need a full wordprocessor, spreadsheet among other things and for that my MacBook Air is vastly better for me.

Seems to me these weren't deployed properly if students were playing games on them. Calling the iPad a toy is ridiculous. And if the need was word processing and spreadsheets why did they choose iPads to begin with?

Because schools jump on the iPad bandwagon without understanding how to use them.

williamh said:

The iPad is just a tool.  It's not Apple's fault if the Maine schools didn't have a plan for their effective use.  Shouldn't they iPads have been secured sufficiently to prevent students from installing games?

Say, I've got a hammer to return to the hardware store because it doesn't serve any function in my home.  Obviously it's a faulty hammer.

Who said the students were installing games? The schools likely rolled out cute little interactive apps that, in the end, served no educational purpose. That is my experience with iPads in schools. 

isteelers said:

antonpablo said:

Not buying Time Warner was the moment Apple dodged a bullet. Best of the thousand "NOs" they have said.

How true. It would be nothing but problems buying the entire company.  Now it may make sense to purchase parts, but which parts is the question. 

Easier to buy the whole thing and spin off what Apple doesn't want. 

isammi said:

Carl Icahn dumped all 46 mil of his shares of Apple stock in a down market. His reading of the tea leaves must see it getting nothing but worse.

Maybe in a down market, or maybe months ago. All we know is that Icahn sold his shares sometime between Jan 2 and last week when he made his announcement. In two weeks he will submit a filing which shows his holdings on Mar 31. That will narrow the timeframe a little. 

I have had two kids issued iPads by two different schools. Neither was an effective learning tool. The only benefits I saw were: (1) fewer books for the kids to carry around and (2) marketing ploy for the schools (both private).

When my kids had to do real work they had to switch to a full computer.

So, in other words the man is willing to take a hit to some of his personal assets to help keep American jobs. Yet, he is accused of being ignorant, a blowhard, a liar, and a panderer. 

For anyone that thinks is "good news" for Apple, you have it completely backwards. First, the government has complete discretion to extract data from your phone and Apple is powerless to do anything about it. Second, now that the government has succeeded in extracting data, every government on the planet will seek to do the same.