In this down economy luxury items are doing terrible
Apple has to have some lower prices otherwise it will lose the great game
They can keep quality up and the looks very stylish but they must come in at lower price points for some items (this why Psystar is getting away with murder)
McDonald's and WalMart did great last year. Those two stocks and Family Dollar shined
Apple is entering perilous times. Many who love Apple will simply not be able to afford them and will go buy Windows machines or do without
Google phone will impact hard on iphone
Google does things right.
They rarely screw up
Remember that whole video purchase fiasco? Google Catalog? Google voice search by telephone? Google Coupons? Google Answers?
Google screws up all the time, but it's good. Their people get to work in personal projects that Google has no problem putting on line to see if they fly, which probably accounts for a good number of their failures.
I think Apple has been mostly doing all the right things. They have tiered their systems well for the most part, made the operating system work seamlessly with the hardware, moved to the Intel platform, and increased their visibility through their retail store push. They also released Safari and iTunes on the Windows platform. Their iPod and iPhone lines seem to be doing very well also.
Their problem will always be in the entry level, and while small, lesser-featured laptop "netbooks" are pushing the price boundary down, Apple is, and probably will continue to be absent from. Linux has hope here, but there has to be standardization (and an app store?) before it can take off.
“Google does things right. “
You’re nutty as a fruit cake.