The company has bucketloads of two important things—cash and leadership moxie. Armed with both, it will take a prolonged, cascading pile of defeats and mistakes for Apple to fail, and that just doesn’t seem likely.
It’s not that it could happen, just not as soon as link bait bloggers make it seem.
Ever since the Apple keynote, thousands of words have been spilled by geeks and nerds in all the land about how EVIL APPLE had the nerve to release a “New iPad” just seven months after they released the third generation of the Jesus Tablet.
I’m I the only one who thinks this is stupid and childish? (Actually I’m not) Have you ever bought a PC? Dell, HP, Acer, Toshiba, etc, release new laptops or desktops every few weeks. Are you an Android user? Samesung, LG, HTC, etc, release a new phone every few months. This is how technology works, and the same applies for TVs, cameras, and many other electronic devices.
I’ve always told my friends, if you want to buy something just look for the best device you can afford right now and fits your needs. A month from now there will be a newer, faster, better model, that’s how technology works.
Besides, it’s just a minor revision anyway, Angry Birds is not going to be better, email and web pages work the same, and Netflix has the same old movies. There is no difference for 99% of what the majority of people use the thing for. Don’t like, don’t buy. And please Grow up.
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 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.
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.
