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Category Archives: Opinion
Microsoft’s Lost Decade
Vanity Fair has a great article about how Microsoft has become an underdog, after being the largest force in technology during the nineties. How Steve Ballmer still is the CEO, I’ll never understand.
Apple Sales and Profit Miss Analysts’ Estimates (Really?)
Apple reported net income of $8.82 billion, or $9.32 a share, up from $7.31 billion, or $7.79 a share, in the period a year earlier. Revenue was $35.02 billion compared with $28.57 billion a year earlier.
This is exactly what is wrong with all the analysts and all the headlines everywhere. Apple sells more of everything when compared with the same quarter a year ago (except for iPods, which are being cannibalized by iPhones I guess), and yet, everyone is alarmed that Apple did not meet their expectations. Expectations based on estimates created with numbers that came from God knows where, because they were not made from rational or scientific data I can assure you.
Apple had one hell of a quarter, for a tech company or for any kind of company, and yet these clowns complain. But what else is new. Analysts are always wrong on their Apple estimates, and yet they get paid and websites cite them. I would love to get a job in one of those firms. Imagine making money by inventing crap, being wrong all the time, and still get paid obscene amounts of money. Is either analyst or politician.
Google Says Some Apple Inventions Are So Great They Ought to Be Shared
…Google’s view is that just as there are patents that are standards essential, there are also patents that are commercially essential — patents that cover features that are so popular as to have become ubiquitous.
…In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell rebutted Walker’s argument. “That a proprietary technology becomes quite popular does not transform it into a ‘standard’ subject to the same legal constraints as true standards,” he wrote.
Google has some massive balls. Why didn’t they invest their time and money in R&D to come up with their own solutions? You know what Apple? Go thermonuclear on these clowns.
I blog the way I do, and that’s it.
On an invitation by a fellow blogger, I began writing stuff on a webpage a little over a year ago. I had no experience, no idea how to do it, all I had was the desire and the place to do it. So I did. Something funny happened, I liked it. So I began writing about apps, and tricks, and tips, and pretty much anything I could think of. I then decided to start my own blog, where I could talk about tech, just not always about Apple.
