Apple 2007 top 10 lists

As an Apple and a Windows user, I can say that Apple not only makes computing fun, but gets rid of the complexity, allowing me to be more creative. That said, they lack many of the modern development tools Windows has had for a decade or more. I’ll continue to buy both for at least another 5 years.

STOP getting hung up over AAPL’s product of the moment. AAPL’s biggest edge is the unbeliveably stunning idiocy of ALL its “competitors”: they embody imbecility. AAPL marches on.

Those who say movie downloads and iPhone won’t add to AAPL prices are dead wrong. Movie downloads to AppleTV are the iPod for the living room. And with Apple selling iPhones at an unbelievable rate (that is until Jobs divulges the number sold at Macworld) the cash coming in from the revenue sharing with ATT will juice the bottom line like crazy.

All of Apple’s products are in full steam ahead mode. Not just Mac. More iPods and iPhones sold are the reason Mac sales are through the roof. Those that dismissed Apple years ago are rediscovering how wonderful Leopard is to use. And having Vista out now only enhances the number of people defecting to the Apples, iPhones and iPods and sooon to be the renaissance of the AppleTV.

Happy to be long Apple Inc.

Recession? What recession?

No. Although the stock may not jump in regards to the newly renting video system apple has developed, it is another innovation apple has created. Apple is not dependent on the future success of its ipods, but more so on its ever lasting advancements it has to bring in the technology sector.

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still a buy in the market

Braden,

I think you are dead wrong about movie downloads! This is going to 1) juice iPod sales even more. 2) finally get Apple TV (Amazing device!) sales going, and 3) Prove to everyone that Windoze media is just yet another monopoly grab that (this time) failed miserably.

Yes, it is so true that Apple has innovated nearly the entire computer revolution. Jobs is the Edison of our times indeed. It’s so sad to think that the common man has felt for years that Bill Gates actually did anything. That man has only been an incredibly lucky and greedy profiteer. At least in recent years he did start giving back through philanthropy, but as far as technical innovations go, Gates hasn’t done diddly-squat.

Movie downloads won’t move the needle on Apple’s stock. TV and movie downloads are over-hyped and won’t deliver to the bottom line. The iPod is beginning to reach a saturation point, and because of the five year exclusive contract with AT&T the iPhone has limited market penetration potential. Increasing market share in laptops and desktops is another matter, and is where the true share price appreciation will come from.

Read more at:

http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/2007/12/followup-future-of-broadcast-television.html

and

http://www.business-strategy-innovation.com/2007/06/iphone-followup-innovation-in-box.html

NYTimes Top 10 Viewed Features, 2007: The iPhone Matches Most of Its Hype

It’s about time that Apple and Steve Jobs received the recognition they deserve. Jobs is the Thomas Edison of this period in time. Apple is his Tesla. No one minds seeing a man and a company get rich, when they are improving people’s lives in the process. If there is one central theme in the history of Apple, it is to build products that make technology more fun, more helpful and more powerful all at the same time. This is a big “hats off” to you Steve Jobs, the consummate rebel/underdog with a bright vision for the future, who would never give in to the Evil Empire. You’ve won it my friend!