blog.wired.com - 1/22/2009
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During its quarterly earnings call Wednesday, Apple reinforced its
skepticism in netbooks, saying their low-powered CPUs, cramped
keyboards and small displays are not enough to satisfy customers.
"We've
got some ideas, but right now we think the products in theory will not
provide ...
digitaldaily.allthingsd.com - 1/23/2009
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digitaldaily.allthingsd.com —
We like competition, as long as they don’t
rip off our IP, and if they do, we’re...
going to go after anybody that does … We will not stand for having our IP ripped off and we’ll use whatever weapons we have at our disposal [to ...
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Palm to Apple: Bring It
apple.com - 1/21/2009
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apple.com —
Good news for Apple all around: Apple sold
2,524,000 Macintosh computers during the quarter, representing nine percent...
unit growth over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold a record 22,727,000 iPods during the quarter, representing three ...
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Apple Reports First Quarter 2009 Results
pcmag.com - 1/22/2009
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pcmag.com —
Apple review, Apple commentary, Apple news... Everything Apple
Apple executives hinted Wednesday that the company might legally...
contest the multitouch technology found within the Palm Pre. During the waning minutes of a conference call announcing the ...
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Will Apple Sue Palm Over the Pre? - News and Analysis by ...
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Apple's new CEO: Netbooks "will not provide the experience to customers that they're happy with"
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... assume they're missing the boat because of corporate elitism. But the smarter assumption is that they've got something cooking, and are being customarily sly about it.
The clue? When businessmen talk of imaginary customers, a solution to their imaginary problems is always close at hand. Apple's gift is simply to be able to imagine such customers with a straight face while millions of real ones are kicking down Best Buy's doors to buy shitty netbooks.
Apple Still Oblivious to Netbook Opportunity [Wired: Gadget Lab]
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It Was A Great First Quarter, But Are Mac "Switchers" Becoming Harder To Find?
Byte of the Apple - BusinessWeek —
... at 34.7% from the year before (remember: Jobs likes both market share and profits, but he’ll take the latter in a pinch). That compares to 18% for Dell and 24% for HP. So if Apple wanted to come out with an aggressively priced lower-end Mac (or iPhone, for that matter) that still met the company’s basic quality bar, it’s got the financial wiggle room to do it. Personally, I wouldn’t count on Apple diving into the margin-sapping NetBook market with a me-too product, which would be the obvious move for most companies. I think Apple will either ride out the recession with its ...
The Macalope Weekly: Can Apple survive another great quarter?
MacUser —
... say, your dragons, your fire demons, your Beyoncés), he might be inclined, after listening to yesterday’s quarterly earnings call , to lean back and light one up. But he doesn’t (message: smoking’s not cool, kids!), so instead he’ll just laugh at all the people who predicted gloom and doom for Apple just because the company wasn’t diving headfirst into the cesspool that is the netbook market and/or said the new MacBooks were losers . Ha. Ha. And they’re still doing it (tip o’ the antlers to Daring Fireball )! Silly pundits. Will you never ...
The Macalope Weekly: Can Apple survive another great quarter?
Macworld —
... say, your dragons, your fire demons, your Beyoncés), he might be inclined, after listening to yesterday’s quarterly earnings call , to lean back and light one up. But he doesn’t (message: smoking’s not cool, kids!), so instead he’ll just laugh at all the people who predicted gloom and doom for Apple just because the company wasn’t diving headfirst into the cesspool that is the netbook market and/or said the new MacBooks were losers . Ha. Ha. And they’re still doing it (tip o’ the antlers to Daring Fireball )! Silly pundits. Will you never ...
Apple on netbooks: Still "inferior," but "we've got some ideas"
Yahoo! Tech Advisors —
... I continue to think that a netbook version of the Mac would be a great idea—and an instant success—but Apple remains non-committal on the subject, dissing existing netbooks on the market as "inferior" during Wednesday's earnings call. Acting CEO Tim Cook didn't completely close the door on the subject—"we've got some ideas," he told analysts during the conference call (as quoted by Wired Gadget Lab )—but he added that "right now we think the products there are inferior and will not provide the experience to customers that they're happy with." Cook's comments echo ...
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community.winsupersite.com 1/22/2009 — Dan Lyons finally takes on a very obvious problem : Apple has too many friends in the media and rather than be critical of the company, they simply suck up to Apple in return for "super-secret" access. Heads-up, Dan. It's old news. I've ...
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technologizer.com 2/10/2009 — There are many unique things about Apple, Inc. And one of the oddest of all is the degree to which straightforward reporting about the company’s activities has been drowned out in recent years by a surging sea of rumor, speculation, ...
Apple’s Multi-Touch Patent: A More Realistic View [TheAppleBlog]
theappleblog.com 2/3/2009 —
So Apple is finally awarded their multi-touch patent , and the hue and cry from the Apple Bashers is pretty loud. But not only Apple Bashers are worried, Daring Fireball had this to say :
Very broad language - taken at face value, Apple ...
SEC reportedly looking into Steve Jobs' health —
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