If you watch TV, you can now watch CBS on your iPhone or iTouch. I don’t know how. I don’t care how. I’d rather eat boiled roadkill Microsoft on a bed of shredded Adobe with Dell gravy than watch network television.
If it matters to you, you’ll find it.
Lord have mercy.
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Write down that you read it here first.
Apple will emerge on the other side of the recession as THE preeminent computer manufacturer.
Before the Dow hits 10,000 again only Sony and HP will still be viable competitors in hardware. Dell will cease to be. At absolute best, Dell will be reduced to a barely profitable generic box-maker. They’re about there now.
When the recession ends, there will be Apple standing alone amid the rubble of a devastated industry. Hardware makers will be HOWLING for OS X licenses.
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When people look back at what killed the tech industry, five years from now, the smart ones will notice that Apple maintained continuous development of new technology, and active incorporation of the best new developments into their products. Tech historians will note that Apple worked to improve their products and their customer service while their peers worked to improve the bottom line.
Mark this date down on your calendar.
I’m predicting Apple as the IBM of this millenium, for better or worse.
Microsoft will be assimilated or destroyed. Ditto Adobe, Oracle, Intuit, Ambrosia, and Bob’s Payday Loans and All-Night Pharmacy.
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Now, just be happy.
AHAHAHAHA!
You think this is a “recession” and someday it will be “over.”
What a rube!
The DOW’s never gonna be close enough to so much as send a smoke signal to 10,000 ever again.
Rip – Either you and I have very similar thoughts, or your reading my blog and gaining enlightenment. Either way, I called the shift in the tech market 5 or 6 years ago. The only reason MS will continue to have > 50% market share over the next 10 – 15 years is inertia. The inertia of the stupid and scared.
DC – Don’t worry, the DOW will hit 10,000 and go beyond. Give it a couple of years. Investing has nothing to do with financial reality. If it did, APPL would be way above $100 at this point, not ping-ponging around the $90 mark. Investors are idiots, this is why we’re in this mess. Oh, that and the fact that bankers decided to believe in fairies and magic money dust and the sheep went along.