A temporary wobble might exist....but if this I-TV gadget comes through....then the wobble automatically goes away....for a long time.
>> a series of patent-infringement lawsuits against rivals are not entirely going to plan
Live by the sword, die by the sword.
... eh Swordmaker?
I like how the author is using as evidence for Apple’s wobble that people aren’t buying a phone now because they are waiting for Apple’s IPhone5. And also evidence: Apple’s products are cheaper two months in than they were at the launch — something which has never ever happened in the entire history of technological gadgets.
Apple creates a device, the iPad, that would have been beyond the dreams of science fiction only ten years ago.
Now, a few short years later, there are dozens of competitors, looking to gain market share by releasing similar or superior devices, at lower prices.
Now the Indians are looking to market a tablet computer that will sell for less than fifty bucks.
So the cost of a tablet computer, which did not exist in 2001, has gone from 20 hours turning a wrench to 10, to five, and soon to two.
But the US Capitalist System has “never worked”, don’tcha know...
And this is before Windows 8 arrives circa September-October 2012....
Of course Apple was going to “wobble”.....that is the nature of competition, especially in higher technology hardware.
Those who predicted Apple would dominate tablets and phones for years do not understand free markets and competition.
This is all good news for the people.
Wait until the iPad 3 comes out. I will be replacing my original iPad as soon as it does.
All I can tell you is that whenever I walk past an Apple Store these days, you can’t get in the darn place. Wobble or not, they are well positioned to keep printing money for a while.
Author is criticizing Apple’s path based on where the puck is now.
That’s not where Apple is going, because that’s not where the puck will be.
Apple is not in the $200 tablet market. When current iPad equivalence can be had for $200, their $500 model will still have $300 more capability.
Apple Stock price $391.84 at closing yesterday... Apple Stock closing price on the day after Steve Jobs' death $375.75.
Wobbling? Right. Sure.
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Except the current management, Tim Cook, has been running Apple officially for four months, not two. He has also been the sit-in CEO when Jobs was sick for quite a while longer. As far as simply vision, Jobs is said to have stuffed Apple with at least four years of products.
If Apple is going to falter without Jobs, it’s not going to happen this fast.