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Quote: Originally Posted by mesomorphicman What the heck are you talking about?? How old are you?? How do you turn an article on C.C. into bashing Apple? No cell phone maker gives returns on Apps, just as any small App you buy and download from t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by addabox Leave it to "MacOldTimer" to find a way to turn a thread on Circuit City into an opportunity to bash Apple. It's like some kind of mental illness or compulsion. If you can find any error with my logic ple…
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Quote: Originally Posted by hillstones How can a non-commissioned salesman try to sell something you don't need??? Maybe the last time some of you visited a store is when they still had the commissioned salesmen. That was their downfall, switch…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nvidia2008 Well, the big story is that the analysts are scrambling like crazy to prevent the stock from bombing even more this year. Only the Anylyst's that own Apple's stock. The others will wait for it to Bottom …
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Quote: Originally Posted by dagamer34 I'd be more weary about Apple's long term prospects, dipping into markets they really shouldn't. Even though such products would sell well in the beginning, too many investments will spread the companies bran…
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Quote: Originally Posted by piot You have a cute name there OldTimer.... but you really are sounding more and more troll-like. "Bloat Books" ?? "You da man" A little tactless today, don't you think? Your whole netbook 'argument' is not ev…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rtdunham hear, hear! didn't apple itself suggest the iPhone and iPodTouch are a version of a netbook, a powerful little computer that can browse, etc? how is that different from fighting for market share on the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by piot You have a cute name there OldTimer.... but you really are sounding more and more troll-like. "Bloat Books" ?? "You da man" A little tactless today, don't you think? Your whole netbook 'argument' is not ev…
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Quote: Originally Posted by UltimateKylie Notice any word in particular? ... LINUX. I know ASUS said high returns of Linux while low return on Windows. I don't find that shocking at all as Linux is still half baked (I know I download a copy …
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM How is making a profit short-sighted? Selling a lot more units doesn't help much if you have to reduce the margins a lot to make that happen. Winning a popularity contest isn't necessarily the same as good bus…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Just to make it clear, I didn't say the iPhone compares with a netbook, and I do not presume to suggest that. What I meant by "picking at the bones" is profitability. We'll see how much money they actual…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JeffDM Netbooks are a huge share of very little. They don't cost a lot, there's not a lot that can be made on them, and still require a similar level of engineering as a regular notebook even if many of the purchased …
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Steve chose to stay out of the Netbook market. The following is a quote from an AppleInsider article. "We're not tremendously worried. As we look at the netbook category, that's a nascent category. As best as we can tell, there's not a lot of …
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Quote: Originally Posted by Erunno No and to the contrary. I'm not heavily invested in Chrome as I don't use it as my default browser on Windows. But I do regard it is highly interesting from a technical point of view with lots of potential for t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mdriftmeyer From your link this summary has some valid observations: This list will expand considerably with the next revision of the iPhone. From your quote I can't tell if you are mocking the features or th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mark2005 The UI has a few innovations that strike at the gaps in iPhone, but Palm and Pre are missing a bunch of things that would put it ahead of iPhone. For example, see http://counternotions.com/2009/01/12/pre B…
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Quote: Originally Posted by mrpiddly The palm pre has not been released yet and due to the lack of prolonged user experience with the device, it should not be compared to anything. OSX could run on a netbook if apple wanted it to. It does…
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Quote: Originally Posted by 1st better looking hard... Hopefully VZ and ATT are ready for the task too. Isn't ALU got product going? "The Japanese company NTT DoCoMo has been testing a 4G communication system prototype with 4x4 MIMO called VSF-…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Bageljoey Am I reading you right here? Are you saying that Apple needs to catch up to an announced product that is months from delivery and may be run on an even more inferior network? I don't know the Pre, though …
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Quote: Originally Posted by silverpraxis Instead of introducing an awkward piece of hardware built by another company using a slightly copycatted version of software/GUI after competitors beat you to the market by years (Ipod/Zune), Microsoft wil…