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Entries Tagged as 'iTunes Rivals'

Well, Whaddya Know?

February 17th, 2010 · 15 Comments · App Store, Apple Tablet, Distant Flame Wars, Gadgetry, General Detritus, Master Jobst Fimil, Patent Infringement, Punditbots and Fundtards, iTunes Rivals

Kodak is suing Apple, now. It only stands to reason. Have you noticed that several Apple products have sides at right angles to each other? Kodak invented that. Also, most of Apple’s products have buttons. Kodak was putting buttons on their shit years before Apple even existed. I’m frightened, Auntie Em. … The iPad SDK [...]

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Apple Quarterly Report

July 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment · App Store, Apple Event, Master Jobst Fimil, The Stock Market, Windows 7, iPhone, iPhone killer, iTunes, iTunes Rivals

Okay, kiddies, here’s your lesson in Business 101. Apple is a business. All the punditbots in the echosphere can’t change the basic fact: What Apple is doing works as compared against the only metric that matters: Did it make more money today than it did yesterday. The answer in Apple’s case is, once again, yes. [...]

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Weekend Update: Mid May

May 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Apple Event, General Detritus, Market Share, Master Jobst Fimil, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Punditbots and Fundtards, Tim Cook, iTunes, iTunes Rivals

Here are a few things that will NOT happen this week. People who work inside the beltway will not understand anything that goes on outside the beltway. Therefore, every decision that is made by them and their underlings in your state can be statistically counted on to be wrong at least 75% of the time. [...]

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So there I was surrounded by a sea of low I.Q.s

May 12th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Android, Darling Furball, Microsoft, Punditbots and Fundtards, Windows 7, iPhone, iPhone killer, iTunes, iTunes Rivals

Microsoft still has some Zunes on the shelves. Apparently they still have some money they don’t need, too. Did you see this ad? This is the exact same logic that has failed to move anyone to a subscription model since the earliest days of downloads. I used to think Microsoft was stupid. Not anymore. Repeating [...]

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The Stupid People are In Charge

April 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Android, App Store, Blackberry, Gadgetry, Punditbots and Fundtards, Recession, The End of the World as We Know It, iPhone, iPhone killer, iTunes, iTunes Rivals

Three or four days ago, somebody (maybe Forbes or Philip-Elmer DeWitt) typed that Steve Jobs is still heavily involved in the goings on at Apple. You know, even though he’s home convalescing, he’s still the actual CEO. This is precisely what he said would happen when he decided to take some time off. He said [...]

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Echosphere report

April 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Blackberry, Little Psystar, Punditbots and Fundtards, iPhone, iTunes, iTunes Rivals

Okay, this is getting about full tilt stupid. Apple, Amazon, Wal*Mart, Christies, Elaine, McDonalds, Ace Hardware, and Ralph’s All Night Laundromat, Bingo Parlor and Motorcycle Repair are locked in a music price war. The Record Companies have been declared the winners. That’s the echosphere version. The reality is, if Amazon wants to sell music, they [...]

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