All the analysts are talking about how Apple should buy back a bunch of stock, and how that would drive up the price, and about how wonderful that would be for the stockholders.
Meh.
I’m a poor but marginally honest Apple stockholder. A stock buyback might have the temporary effect of driving up the price of the […]

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Me either.
The whole thing was a crock of rumor. No surprise.
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Apple says, “Go ahead. Increase your royalties. Guess what 15% of nothing is, dickhead. Apparently, you forgot who’s on top. How do you like me now?”
I love it.
Now would be a good time for Apple to declare they aren’t selling any more DRM’d tracks. I […]

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Somebody said Apple is going to announce something tomorrow. Maybe something about Apple TV. I heard they’re going to bring back Hollywood Squares, but instead of three in a row, it will be in Pente® format, with 144 squares. Instead of pop culture references, the questions topics will be quantum physics, integral calculus, essays of […]

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No news.
All I can find is some old crap about who’s going to inherit the throne when The Master abdicates. Mostly, all the macabre bastards are speculating about is what will happen to their precious portfolios if His Steveness croaks. Ghouls.
There isn’t any new iPhone Killer news.
Nothing about the Zune.
Nothing about Little Psystar.
 
There isn’t any […]

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I’ve read a lot of stuff about the Apple TV. Most of the stuff I’ve read has been that it’s kind of okay, but not all that great. You know. Picking at nits. A lot of that is why I didn’t go buy one for a long time. I could never find unalloyed praise. The […]

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Matt Asay, writing for C|Net notes that Steve Jobs doesn’t get near the whipping he deserves in the media. He called Joe Nocera a slime bucket and gets a pass. Matt opines that Steve Ballmer would have been drawn and quartered by the press for such a move.
He’s probably right.
The press wants review copies of […]

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