Comments on: Analysts, Investors Take Apple to Task For its Best Quarter Ever

By: Murall » Por que a Microsoft quer o Yahoo?

Murall » Por que a Microsoft quer o Yahoo? — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:21:23 +0000

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By: Why Does Microsoft Really Want Yahoo? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Why Does Microsoft Really Want Yahoo? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:53:21 +0000

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Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:34:56 +0000

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By: Is the MacBook Air Another Cube? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Is the MacBook Air Another Cube? — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 06:17:18 +0000

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By: humann

humann — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:51:37 +0000

Thanks Tod for pointing out what had been really bugging me after reading these 31 comments. I prefer the term Serious Wild-Ass Guess(work) in this case.

By: roz

roz — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 09:13:06 +0000

they can’t make predictions because they don’t the future. forecasts would suggest they have some basis to tell the future, they don’t have that either.

guidance is sufficiently vague to suggest a direction without making promises.

By: Tod

Tod — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 07:12:12 +0000

So, um, I’m real curious about the use of what appears to be a “yuppie-MBA” word: guidance. What the heck is “guidance”? What’s wrong with the time-honored words “forecast” and “prediction?” Guidance is what a museum guide does for you.

Yours for better English,

-Tod

By: MediaWatch: Market takes knife to Apple, determined to find worm at allthingsapple

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 06:11:41 +0000

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By: seanw

seanw — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:01:19 +0000

that’s the one thing i like about apple: under promise – over deliver.

a sure fire formula for success.

By: danieleran

danieleran — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 01:22:12 +0000

@ beanie: Apple reported that NPD’s market share figures indicate the iPod’s share hasn’t slipped at all. Apple is the only company really creating growth in MP3 players, and always has been. The Zune et all have been getting coverage, but that hasn’t materializes into sales.

The Zune could double and still not matter. Apple’s 5% growth over 20 million is as much as Microsoft managed, but Apple also kept 100% of its past sales.

I compared the iPhone to the iPod because many iPod users bought an iPhone and continued to use it as their iPod. There are lots of phones with MP3 features, but users are not buying them for that purpose, and they largely go unused. If Sony’s Walkman were a brand of consequence, the Sony Connect store wouldn’t have withered away. The Walkman MP3 software is also impossibly difficult to use.

The difference is being an iPod vs. tacking an “MP3 player” label on a phone that will only ever be used as a phone by the majority of users. Nokia likes to flatter itself as the biggest maker of cameras too, since their phones all have a toy cam, but that is nearly as delusional. At least phone users occasionally take pics, even if they aren’t much of a camera.