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[jdb8167]

"One wonders why CNBC thinks his advice is worth, well, anything."

Maybe they were looking for the funny too? And Enderle was busy looking at RIM 10 phones.

[Diesel50]

Why would anyone trust or listen to Blodgets opinion on stocks or apple.
A convicted securities fraud felon, who is banned from having any involvement with securities or the stock market for life.

[Diesel50]

As for RIM well to coin a phrase or pun, Its circling the RIM.

[DocNo]

Macworld, on 05 January 2013 - 09:00 AM, said:

Blodget lambastes the cash- and profit-rich Apple and praises in-the-red Amazon, because failing to making any money is where the real money’s at. It’s probably not surprising that he’s still preaching a dot-com bubble mentality—make no money to get an audience, and then the money will start rolling in … somehow.

I'm telling you Southpark had it nailed with the underpants gnomes:

1) Steal Underpants
2) ???
3) Profit!

Android/Amazon will figure out number two any day now. You just wait!

[leicaman]

Netbooks. The new "plastics." (The Graduate)

I used the netbook cudgel (they have to be good for something) with a story yesterday where Tim Bajarin claimed Apple would not survive if they didn't do a convertible. That is, a mash up of a tablet and a laptop. An MS Surface essentially. It's too easy sometimes to see the problem with what these people, who claim to be experts, somehow never even bother to consider. Consultants like Bajarin remind me of a definition I heard of a consultant. Someone who is from farther away than 50 miles.

But they do serve a higher purpose. We come here every Saturday morning to remember.

[wesley96]

I wish I could make tons of money writing nonsense. I wouldn't mind Macalope lambasting me if I do get to be in that position, though. It's a self-sustaining industry, after all

[Sigivald]

Saith Enderle: "In fact, Apple’s biggest failures were Lisa and the Apple Server, both created on Steve Jobs’ watch"

The Apple Server?

I suppose he must mean the Apple Network Server of 1996/7, which was such a minor product (and admittedly abject failure) that I'd forgotten it - and I remember a LOT of obscure Macs.

(Unless he means the more successful Workgroup Server or Macintosh Server lines, but those weren't really aimed at "IT"... whatever "IT" means at the moment.

And the line lasted from 1993 to 2003 until replaced by the XServe, so again, it must have been selling.)

He also neatly ignores - being Rob Enderle - the later "Server" products: the XServe (2002-2011) and modern Mac Mini Server.

None of them took The IT World By Storm, but they lasted a lot longer than a year and thus sold tolerably well - the Mini Server still being in production at this instant!

[SoundsKinky]

"Does Carlson think Google is somehow taking money out of Apple’s pocket by creating these apps?"

Of course not. Because money (profit) isn't what's important. He thinks Google is seizing/blocking out market share.